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STATEMENT OF FACTS 



RELATING/TO THE 



ELECTION IN LOUISIANA 

November 7th, 1876. 



BY 



IE. .A. BURKE, 

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OF COUXSEL FOR THE DEMOCRATIC .VXD COXSERVATIYE PARTY. 




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JK 526 
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STATEMENT OF FACTS 



RELATING TO THE 



ELECTION IN LOUISIANA 



November jth, 1876. 



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BY 



E^A BURKE, 

OF COUNSEL, FOR THE DEMOCRATIC AND CONSERVATIVE PARTY. 




WASHINGTON", D. C 
1877. 



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STATEMENT OF FACTS 



RELATING TO THE 



ELECTION IN LOUISIANA. 



Registration and Election. 

Machinery all in hands of Republicans. 

All supervisors, clerks, &c, Republicans, appointed on re- 
commendation of Republican Campaign Committee. 

Registration opened August 28 ; closed October 28. 

August 22. Democratic State Central Committee asked 
that our party should be allowed one clerk. Lieutenant Gov- 
ernor Antoine said he would refer it to the Republican Cam- 
paign Committee. 

August 30. Reply received, refusing request. 

September 1. Burke, chairman Registration and Election 
Committee, asked equal representation in offices. 

Offered to prove existence of vast frauds in 1874. 

September 17th. Reply received, refusing request. 

Election of 1876 held upon registration of 1874 ; revised 
1876. 

Registration of 1874 made by Republican officials. 

Five thousand two hundred colored frauds discovered in 
New Orleans, 1874. 

Reported as required by law to Republican officials ; none 
erased, but 2,000 whites erased without notice. 

Character of Registration and Election Officers, 1876. 
Michael Hahn, State Registrar, candidate for Legislature. 
H. F. Brennan, Assistant Supervisor, 1st ward, Corporal 
of Police. 



A. J. Brim, Assistant Supervisor, 2d ward, Custom-house 
Inspector. 

P. Creagh, clerk Police Court, 3d ward, appointed by Kel- 

' R. C. Howard, Assistant Supervisor, 4th ward, Custom- 
house officer. 

J. G, Puechtler, Assistant Supervisor, 5th ward, Custom- 
house officer. 

W. J. Moore, Assistant Supervisor, 7th ward, Custom- 
house officer and candidate for Legislature. 

Thomas Leon, Assistant Supervisor, 8th ward, Custom- 
house officer. 

H. C. Bartlett, Assistant Supervisor, 9th ward, Custom- 
house officer, and candidate for Legislature. 

T. H. Rowan, Assistant Supervisor, 10th ward, Custom- 
house officer. 

L. Backers, Assistant Supervisor, 11th ward, police officer. 

P. J. Maloney, Assistant Supervisor, 14th ward, Custom- 
house officer. 

W. F. Loan, Assistant Supervisor, 15th ward, Chief of Police. 

M. J. Grady, Supervisor for Ouachita, Collector of Internal 
Revenue. 

Philip Joseph, Supervisor for Madison, resident of Mobile, 
Ala. ; indicted in New Orleans for burglary and housebreak- 
ing, and a fugitive from justice from Alabama. 

J. E. Scott, Supervisor for Claiborne, clerk in New Orleans 
Post Office, not a resident of Claiborne. 

William Fulford, Supervisor for Jackson, not a resident of 
parish. 

R. B. Edgeworth, Supervisor for Plaquemines, Custom- 
house officer; reputation of a thief; resident of New Orleans. 

B. W. Woodruff, Supervisor for Rapides, clerk in New Or- 
leans Post Office, and resident of New Orleans. 

J. A. Veazie, Supervisor for Lafayette, killed a man in La- 
fayette. 

Victor Gerodias, Supervisor for St. Tammany, resident of 
New Orleans. 



D. A. Ward, Supervisor for Grant, resident of New Orleans. 

F. A. Clover, Supervisor for East Baton Rouge, resident of 
New Orleans ; not a citizen of State ; formerly a roper-in for 
a snake show in New Orleans. 

A. W. Kempton, Commissioner, fugitive from justice from 
Texas. 

A. W. Kinchen, Supervisor for Livingston, under indict- 
ment for murder. 

Managers Republican Campaign Committee Work had Control 
over Supervisors. 

B. P. Bl an chard, and W. L. Catlin, (see Louisiana Investi 
gation, Senate, 1872, case,) both convicted of fraud and per- 
jury upon the face of their own testimony. 

D. J. M. Jewett, under indictment in Shreveport for obtain- 
ing money under false pretenses ; organizer of Colored Coun- 
cils of Freedom ; all three indicted by grand jury of New Or- 
leans. 

Majority violent partisans and unscrupulous men, as is 
shown- by their subsequent conduct. 

Conduct of Officers. 

From commencement of registration to close of election 
conduct characterized by gross violations of law; arbitrary and 
unjust rulings, refusal to register citizens entitled thereto ; dis- 
criminations against whites in favor of colored. 

Closing of offices during office hours, when the closing de- 
layed or prevented Democrats from registering. 

They were supplied with a force of police in citizens' clothes, 
who had free access to registration offices, and passed colored 
men in improperly, and delayed or prevented whites. 

Knew of my own knowledge one old white man, aged 55, 
in third ward, P. Creagh supervisor. Remained in line all of 
one day from 8 A. M., until 3 P. M. of next, awaiting regis- 
try, and during this time Republicans appeared at the office 
and were registered in six minutes' time. 

They refused the United States Supervisor the right to 



scrutinize registry, contrary to the United States Statutes and 
their orders. (See sec. 2017, U. S. Statutes.) 

Concealing Books 

They concealed registration books from United States Su- 
pervisors in police stations, in the "court-house, and in other 
places not provided by law. 

Erasures. 

They made erasures of names without notice to United 
States Supervisors at unseemly hours of the night. 

They erased the names of over 9,000 white citizens duly 
registered and honestly entitled to vote, without due notice, 
investigation, or proof. 

Polling Places. 

In several parishes they failed to establish polling places in 
each justice of the peace ward, as required by act 98. 

Depriving Whites of an Opportunity to Register. 
In several parishes they failed and refused to visit localities 
inhabited by whites, thus depriving them of opportunity to 
register. 

Poll Lists. 

They caused incorrect poll lists to be printed, omitting a 
large number of names of the whites. 

Absent from Offices 

They absented themselves from their offices during the period 
of revision of registration, in violation of law, thus delaying 
and preventing citizens from correcting and verifying their 
registration . 

Refusal to Examine Affidavits or Strike off -Color edb Frauds. 

They refused to examine evidence against colored persons 
fraudulently registered — 8900 affidavits against colored frauds 
in New Orleans Were presented as required by law, both to 



State Registrar of votes and to Supervisors ; they refused to 
receive or consider them. 

Seventh Ward. 

A notable instance was seventh ward, Few Orleans, W. J. 
Moore Supervisor. Vote in 1874 was about fifty Democratic 
majority. 

In 1876 Moore was candidate for Legislature. "We proved 
247 colored frauds, by affidavits in each case of two respect- 
able citizens, registered voters in the ward. Supervisor refused 
to erase them. We proved that a large number voted Novem- 
ber 7th. Eighty-seven cases were presented to grand jury, and 
under the advice of Assistant Attorney General Dibble, chair- 
man Republican Campaign Committee, indictments were not 
found. Over 400 names were surreptitiously entered upon 
registration of this ward, under duplicate numbers and regis- 
tration papers issued to different persons under same number. 

The Supervisor erased the names of over 200 persons, and 
106 such persons made affidavit to having been refused right 
to vote, attaching to affidavit Democratic ticket and registra- 
tion papers. 

On election day the Supervisor absented himself from the 
registration office, and could not be found to correct errors 
or omissions. 

On day after election absented himself and could not be 
found by Commissioners of Poll 3 during twenty-four hours, 
and then omitted from the poll 332 Democratic and 159 Repub- 
lican votes, and thus caused 3 Republican representatives to be 
returned as elected, one of whom being the Supervisor who had 
made the registration and revision. 

Returning Board. 

Was of counsel representing the Conservative and Demo- 
cratic candidates before the Louisiana Returning Board ; 
Democratic and Conservative counsel confined them- 
selves to the defense of the parishes attacked by the Republi- 
can candidates and officials, and were not afforded time or 



facilities to attack Republican frauds and irregularities in 
election, although much evidence was in our possession estab- 
lishing said frauds and irregularities ; there was a fraudulent 
colored registry in the State of fully 25,000.' 

These frauds were greatest in the parishes giving large 
colored majorities. Section 2, Act 98 of election law, requires 
that the five members of the Returning Board shall be from 
all political parties. Demand was made for the election of 
representatives of the Democratic and Conservative party to 
fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Oscar Arroyo, 
a Democrat, who resigned in 1875. Dates of said demands, 
November 10, 16, 17, and 21. (See proceedings Returning 
Board, pages 13, 16, 17, and 23.) 

The board failed and refused to fill the vacancy or accord 
the Democratic party a representative. 

The rulings of the board were contradictory and uniformly 
operated to the disadvantage of the Democratic and Conserva- 
tive party. (See pages 23, 24-, 46, 47, 55, 57, 67, 68, 86, 100, 
125, and 130.) 

Rule 9 prohibited the receipt of ex parte affidavits ; and 
such affidavits were subsequently received in the interest of the 
Republican party 

In the cases of Ouachita, Morehouse, East Baton Rouge, 
East and West Eeliciana, the board had given counsel to 
understand that where ex parte affidavits had been received in 
behalf of the Republican party, they would permit the Demo- 
cratic and Conservative party likewise to file ex parte 
affidavits. We proceeded at once, by telegrams and letters to 
our friends in the parishes, as rapidly as we could learn the 
contents of the affidavits filed by the Republican party, to 
invite our friends to procure affidavits in rebuttal. And we 
did procure and offer a large number of said affidavits from 
all the parishes in which violence and intimidation were 
charged. These affidavits were tendered to the Returning 
Board and refused. The pages of testimony by me referred 
to, show the rules established, the dates on which the rule3 
were changed and modified, and the protest made by the 



counsel representing the Democratic and Conservative party. 
The modification of the rules worked a peculiar hardship in 
many of the parishes, as we had relied upon the introduction 
of ex parte testimony ; and it was only late in the sessions of 
the board that we were notified that we would be required to 
produce the witnesses and too late to procure a full attendance. 

The contents of the protests, made in the interests of the 
Republican party, were not disclosed to counsel until after the 
23d of November, and some of the parishes charged with 
violence and intimidation were opened as late as the 29th of 
November, and the open sessions of the board terminated 
December 2d, after which time no testimony was admitted. 

Many of the parishes were remote, requiring four, ^.ve, six, 
and seven days to communicate and procure witnesses ; it will 
be seen that adequate time was not accorde d the Democratic 
and Conservative counsel to rebut the Republican testimony. 

It is apparent from the proceedings of the board that they 
purposely delayed opening the returns from the parishes in 
which violence and intimidation were charged, and that in 
some cases the members of the board were aware of the fact 
that protests existed, although the returns had not then been 
opened. 

The candidates and citizens in the parishes charged with 
intimidation, violence, &c, had no opportunity to know the 
nature of the charges . made, as no copies of protests and 
charges of violence and intimidation had been filed with the 
copy of returns delivered to the Clerks of the District Courts. 
Certificates from the Clerks of the District Courts for the par- 
ishes referred to, certifying that there were no protests filed 
with the Clerks of the Courts, as required by law, are in evi- 
dence before the Morrison committee. 

Reference to the Republican testimony exhibits the fact 
that nearly all of it was made in the city of New Orleans, in 
the Custom-house, before F. A. Woolfiey, United States 
Commissioner, from ten to twenty days after the date of the 
execution and filing of the returns with District Courts of the 
parishes. 



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Bast Baton Rouge. 

(See pages 42, 44, 46, 55, 56, 57, 71, 96, 121, 127.) 

In the parish of East Baton Rouge the returns were opened 
on Friday, November 24. Received by the Returning Board 
on November 23. Were permitted to make copies of protest 
on November 25. Protests dated 18, and affidavits 15, 16, 
18, 20, 23, and 24th days of November. 

No protest was filed with the District Court. Consolidated 
return dated November 11. The vote cast in this parish was 
2,238 Democratic, 1,626 Republican. Returning Board threw 
out Polls 12 and 14—306 Democratic and 70 Republican, and 
refused to count Polls 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 9, and 13—1,136 Demo- 
cratic and 150 Republican, omitted from the returns by the 
Supervisor. 

Caldwell Parish. 

(See page 61.) 

Returns received November 1*1 ; sworn to November 9. 

The only protest disclosed at the opening, November 27, 
was the general protest of Messrs. Packard, Brewster and 
others, filed November 25. No copy of same with the Clerk 
of the District Court. 

The vote cast in this parish was 631 Democratic and 285 Re- 
publican, and the board threw out Poll 1 — 141 Democratic and 
174 Republican votes. 

Be Soto Parish. 

(See pages 53, 54, 57, 66, 68.) 

Returns dated November 1 were opened Saturday, No- 
vember 25. The package was post marked, stamped and 
sealed apparently, and was held up before all the persons as- 
sembled by Mr. Anderson, showing the red seal, apparently, 
the stamps and post marks, and the registry stamps of the 
package, as if to say that that package was certainly all right. 

The clerk of the Returning Board, Mr. Abell, was called 
upon to know when the package was received, and he replied 
that it was received November 18. The package was opened, 
and it contained the list of voters, poll sheets, statement of 



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votes and consolidated statement. Attention was called to 
the fact by myself and Mr. Guthro, that the protests and affi- 
dayits were dated November 25, although itwasjpost marked, 
sealed and stamped Mansfield, November 14. 

That fact being disclosed, it created quite a commotion in 
the board, and there were various attempts made to explain 
how it was that affidavits made on the 25th could get into a 
package mailed in Mansfield on the 14th, and received in New 
Orleans on the 18th, with canceled stamps. The clerk of 
the board left the room, and returned in a few minutes with 
another package, which he said was the one received on the 
18th, but that he had made a mistake. And Mr. Stoughton 
endeavored to explain the maimer in which the package had 
been received, and it seemed quite satisfactory to him. And 
when he made an explanation, Senator Sherman called atten- 
tion to the fact that that package was probably brought to 
the city by the Supervisor and his affidavit made here and put 
in the package on that day. I sat there by the table where 
Senator Sherman and Mr. Stoughton were discussing: the mat- 
ter and called Senator Sherman's attention to the fact of the 
post mark and that it was stamped with the registered label- 
Senator Sherman replied, in my hearing and in the hearing of 
Mr. Guthro and Mr. McGlorin, "There is no question but the 
returns have been tampered with." 

The vote of this parish was 1,804 Democratic and 898 Re- 
publican. The board threw out of Polls 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8, 692 
Democratic, and 181 Republican. 

East Feliciana. 

(See pages 50, 51, and 53.) 

Returns sworn November 10. Returns opened Saturday, 
November 25, received by mail November 13. 

The affidavits, protests, statements, &c., were contained in a 
separate package, and were dated November 21 and 23. 

There was no protest on the face of the consolidated state- 
ment, which was sworn to by J. E. Anderson before F. Wep- 
nin, Justice of the Peace, November 10. The affidavits which 



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accompanied it, in a separate package, dated November 25 ? 
sworn to before Mr. WoolfLey, in the Custom-house at New 
Orleans. 

The vote cast was 1786 Democratic, 1 Eepublican. The 
board threw out the entire vote of the parish. 

West Feliciana. 

(Page 49.) 

Returns sworn November 13 ; opened November 25 ; re- 
ceived on the 14th of November. 

No protest or remarks on the face of the consolidated re- 
turns. 

Theie was a package of affidavits from D. A. Weber and 
others, not attached to the returns. Governor "Wells' atten- 
tion was called to the fact. He then replied, " We consider 
that any document accompanying the compilation need not be 
attached; it is not absolutely necessary. (See page 49.) 

Judge Trumbull asked when these returns were received ; 
the clerk replied, " The 14th of November." Judge Trumb ull 
asked if these affidavits came with the returns. Anderson re- 
plied, "Yes, sir, they were in the package." 

General Smith reniarked,"No, they were in separate bundles." 

Juds;e Trumbull: When is that dated? The 20th is it? 

Anderson: That is sworn to on the 21st day of November. 

Trumbull : Were they wrapped up in the returns ? 

Wells: No, sir. 

Anderson : This is part of the paper sworn to before T. 
A. WoolfLey U. S. Commissioner, Circuit Court New Orleans, 
&c. 

In the proceedings of the board of November the 18th the 
clerk of the Returning Board acknowledged that the returns of 
West Feliciana were then in his possession. 

Notwithstanding this statement, affidavits were produced, 
dated the 21st of November. 

The vote cast was 1148 Democratic, and 778 Republican. 
The Board threw out Polls 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10—1010 Dem- 
ocratic, and 154 Republican. 



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Franklin Parish. 

(See pages 46, 66, 68, 69 and 112.) 

Had great difficulty in getting the returns before the Return- 
ing Board. The Supervisor had forwarded them by express to 
M. Halm, State Registrar of votes. The returns were sworn to 
November the 9th, before the clerk of the 10th Judicial District. 

No remarks and no protests on the face of the returns 
which reached the city of New Orleans on the 14th of November 
by express. State Registrar Harm was notified repeatedly by 
the agents of the express company. Charges on the package 
were 75 cents. Hahn failed and refused to take them out of 
the office. The Returning Board was notified of ihe fact, and 
we offered to advance the money to pay the charges upon them. 
After twice calling the attention of the board to the fact that 
they were at the express office, we paid the charges and caused 
the agent to take the returns to the board. This parish cast 
789 Democratic and 129 Republican, votes, and the Returning 
Board threw out 74 Democratic and 28 Republican votes. 

Livingston Parish. 

(Seepages 66, 94, 110,111, 112, 113.) 

Opened November 29. Received by the board from State 
Registrar of voters on November 29. Returns not sealed. 
Had been opened in State Registrar's office, certified as sworn 
to November 11, before W. C. Davis, clerk of the court. No 
protests on the face of the consolidated returns, only Packard's 
general protest. 

The vote of this parish was 769 Democratic, 121 Republi- 
can. The Returning Board threw out 378 Democratic and 
no Republican votes. 

Lafayette Parish. 

(See pages 42, 66, 96, 117, 129.) 

Opened November 29th. Received by the board from the 
Supervisor November 29. Sworn to November 14. A num- 
ber of protests and affidavits accompanying, which were dated 
November 28. 



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This parish's returns made up by a clerk named Clegg, who 
came to New Orleans with the Supervisor, bringing the re- 
turns. 

The Supervisor repeatedly informed Mr. Clegg that the re- 
turns were all straight and correct, and no protest. And he 
informed Mr. Clegg that he had delivered the returns to the 
board without any protests. That information was given to 
Mr. Clesrsr between the 14th and 20th of November. Cleg^ 
returned to Lafayette, and was much surprised when the re- 
turns were opened on the 29th, and he discovered the existence 
of the protests. 

When charged by the people of the parish with having made 
these protests, the Supervisor first denied it, and then subse- 
quently admitted the fact. This parish cast 1156 Democratic, 
and 661 Republican votes, and the Returning Board threw 
out 83 Democratic, and 4 Republican votes, and refused to 
count Polls 1 and 3; which cast 435 Democratic, and 3 Re- 
publican votes. 

Morehouse Parish. 

(See pages 32, 42, 45, and 64.) 

Opened November 27th. Received from State Registrar of 
voters, November the 27th, in two packages, one marked," F. 
M. Grant, care of Mr. M. Halm, State Registrar of voters; " 
one marked, "J. Madison Wells, President Returning Board." 
There were a number of affidavits and protests accompanying 
the consolidated statement, sworn to before the clerk of the 
4th Judicial District on the 1 6th of November, but they were 
not attached to the consolidated statements, as required by 
law. The consolidated statement, signed by the Supervisor, 
was dated November 11th. 

This parish cast 1,377 Democratic and 782 Republican votes ; 
and the Returning Board threw out 915 Democratic and 355 
Republican votes. 

Natchitoches Parish. 
(See pages 35, 36, 37, and 38.) 
November 23d Governor Wells agreed to send a messenger 



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with me, upon my statement that I would point out where the 
returns of the Parish of Morehouse were held in the city, 
and when he discovered that I knew where the returns were, 
he declined to send for them. 

Opened Thursday, November 23d, three packages, one 
addressed to the Secretary of State, received by mail, and two 
were addressed to the Returning Board. ■ Upon this package 
being opened, General Anderson remarked that they were 
found properly certified to and sworn, and no protest. 

(See page 36.) 

The Returning Board have not only thrown out two polls 
in that parish, giving 343 Democratic and 7 Republican votes, 
but have counted for five electors 535 votes that there was no 
evidence presented to the board showing that they had been 
cast. The consolidated return of the Supervisor was dated 
November 10th. 

1,761 Democratic, and 2,099 Republican votes were cast in 
this parish. 

Ouachita Parish. 

(See pages 42, 51, 57, 69, 71, 94, 95, 96, 97, and 130.) 

Opened Saturday, November 25th, which was the first op- 
portunity we had to know the protest against that parish. The 
protests were addressed to J. M. Wells and other Returning 
officers of the State. The consolidated statement of votes was 
delivered in person by M. J. Grady, Supervisor, November 
24th. Was sworn to before J. Ennemoser, clerk of the court 
of the parish, November 11th. 

There was, accompanying the returns, a package, which was 
not inclosed with the returns of that parish, and were in no 
wise attached to the returns, containing affidavits, dated 
November 23d. I refer particularly to the affidavit of Eliza 
Pinkston. 

(See General Anderson's statement, page 51.) 

Referring to the returns, Mr. Trumbull said : When was it 
received ? 

General Anderson : Delivered in person ; I don't know 
when. 



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Governor Wells : Get the book ; let us see. 

Abell, (clerk) : Keceived on the 24th of November. 

Wells : Oh, yes ; yesterday. Here are some other docu- 
ments ; they had better go with the papers ; let the gentlemen 
give receipts for them. 

I witnessed that proceeding and the documents were passed 
over, which was the affidavit of Eliza Pinkston and commu- 
nication from the Supervisor of Registration, which read as 
follows : 

"New Orleans, November 23, 1876. 
C. S. Abell, Esq., Secretary Returning Board : 

Inclosed please find affidavit of Eliza Pinkston, which I re- 
ceived too late to file with my returns. Please see that it is 
brought in with the other affidavits filed with my returns. 
Respectfully, 
(Signed) M. J. Grady, 

Supervisor at Ouachita. 

General Anderson stated that the only objection on the face 
of the consolidated statement was concerning a poll, the Com- 
missioners having received no papers, and they directed all 
voters to go to the next nearest poll. 

The United States Supervisor certifies to the correctness of 
the consolidated statement, also that the election was carried 
on in a peaceable and fair manner. 

This is also corroborated by Mr. M. J. Grady, Supervisor of 
Registration, and by Julius Ennemoser, who certifies that he 
examined the statement of consolidated votes, with the origi- 
nal statement of votes, and found the same correct. 

Judge Trumbull : There is no protest on the paper itself. 

General Anderson : These protests were attached to it. 

Judge Trumbull : What is the date of these protests at- 
tached to it ? 

General Anderson : Twenty-first of November. 

Judge Trumbull: Where do they purport to have been 
made? 

Governor Wells : Before Woolfley, in this city, parish of 



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Orleans ; he has his office in the Custom-house ; he is a clerk 
of the United States Court. 

Gov. Palmer : I believe General Anderson and Governor 
Wells said these affidavits were received here so ? 

Gov. Wells : Yes, sir ; were attached. 

Gen. Anderson: Yes, sir; with a string and seal. 

Now a number of affidavits were attached with a string and 
a seal, but the Pinkston affidavit and a large number of others 
were not attached to my personal knowledge. I recollect dis- 
tinctly the motion of Governor Wells when he gathered the 
papers up and passed them over to Mr. Anderson, who bundled 
them up with the returns and sent them out to the clerk. They 
were smuggled in with the balance of the returns. 

This parish cast 1,865 Democratic and 793 Republican votes, 
and the Returning Board threw out 1,517 Democratic and 48 
Republican votes. 

Richland Parish. 

(See pages 51 and 52.) 

Opened Saturday, November 25th ; sworn to before J. N. 
Pitts, clerk of 14th Judicial District Court, November 10th ; 
received November 13th. 

General Anderson remarked that the only remarks on the 
face of the consolidated statement were about the votes and 
nothing else. Here are the protests and oaths against this 
court : 

Mr. Guthro : Are they sworn to ? 

Gov. Wells : They are Democratic protests ; they must be. 

Gen. Anderson : I don't see where they are sworn to — Yes, 
there is one. 

Mr. Burke : Is there any protest filed affecting the electoral 
vote? 

And some member of the board remarked that the parish 
was embraced in the general protest of Packard and others. 
But at the election there was no objection by the Supervisor 
and no protest from any other party was attached to the re- 
turns or accompanying them except as to the irregularities 
charged by Democrats against Republicans. 
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This parish cast 963 Democratic and 277 Republican votes ; 
and the Returning Board threw out 770 Democratic and 157 
Republican votes. 

Parish of St. Landry. 
(Page 65.) 

Opened Monday, November 27th, four packages, three of 
them not sealed and in very bad order, signed and sworn to 
on the 15th of November, before the clerk of the 15th Judicial 
District Court. 

Mr. Wells remarked that there was a pile of protests, but 
they are for the local officers. 

The protests in the case of this parish were dated November 
27th, the same day the returns were delivered to the Return- 
ing Board, and were made in the city of New Orleans. 

This parish cast 3,746 Democratic and 2,432 Republican 
votes; and the Returning Board threw out 120 Democratic 
and 38 Republican votes. 

Tangipahoa Parish. 

(See pages 66,96, 111, 128, 131, 132.) 

Opened Wednesday, November 29th; received Wednesday, 
29th, 12 o'clock; signed and sworn to November 28th; pro- 
tests accompanying the consolidated statement sworn to on 
the 28th of November, before the Secretary of State. We 
had made great exertions to procure these returns. 

The Supervisor was reported to be a drunken, worthless 
cuss, and I sent to the parish to try to get him sober long 
enough to make his returns. He sent back word to me that 
he would make up his returns and file them if I would pay 
him $200. We were out of funds, and not purchasing. I 
presume he found a better market. 

This parish cast 930 Democratic and 565 Republican votes ; 
and the Returning Board threw out 76 Democratic and no 
Republican votes, and the Supervisor failed and refused to 
return 10, casting 43 Democratic votes and 16 Republican. 

Vernon Parish. 
(Page 113.) 
Opened November 29th, sworn to November 9th before 



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deputy clerk of the court. No protest alluded' to. Gov. 
Wells said that nobody had raised any objection ; only some 
person had suggested that the tally-sheets, or some tally-sheets, 
were not inclosed, the vote was announced. The clerk 
of the Returning Board had announced, November 18th, that 
these returns were on hand. 

The Democratic vote was 647, the Republican vote 2, and 
there was no protest whatsoever against it. And yet, strange 
to say, when the returns were announced there had been a loss 
of 178 votes on the part of the Democratic candidates, and 
equally strange a gain on the part of the Republican candi- 
dates of 178 votes that were never cast for them. 

Mr. Townsend, of Morrison's committee, stated during my 
examination : " 1 think it has been admitted that it was a 
clerical error." 

It changed the result for Judge, District Attorney, and 
member of the Legislature. 

In 1874 there were 712 Democratic and no Republican votes 
polled in that parish. According to the Republican census of 
1875, there were but 77 colored persons residing in the parish. 
Webster Parish. 

(See pages 60, 68, and 96.) 

Opened Monday, November 27th. Abel I the clerk, said the 
returns were left with him on the 27th, by the Supervisor, 
sworn and subscribed by Morrow, Supervisor, November 11th, 
before J. T. Gordy, Justice of the Peace. 

The only remarks on the consolidated returns concerned 
certain ballots rejected on account of being double ballots. 

Mr. Kermer handed over a bundle, which he said were 
affidavits. The bundle with these affidavits were not attached 
to the returns. (See page 60.) 

This parish cast 886 Democratic and 864 Republican votes ; 
and the Returning Board threw out 446 Democratic votes and 
194 Republican votes. 

Lafourche Parish. 

(See pages 29, 32, and 33.) 

Opened Wednesday, November 22d. Remarks on the face 



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of the consolidated returns, which were the only affidavits 
against the polls of that parish, were against Polls 4 and 7, 
stating that many Republicans were prevented from voting. 

Poll 2 was protested against by S. 1ST. Snaer and Charles S. 
Nichols. 

Poll No. 10. Supervisor stated that no return had been 
received, and that the box of this poll was delivered by the 
Democratic Supervisor of Elections, named Sullivan, who was 
in a drunken state ; that he was compelled to receive the box 
amidst violent demonstrations. 

General Anderson : I don't see any protests here, except 
the remarks of the Supervisor — the consolidated statement — 
duly sworn to and certified. I see nothing here but the same 
statement of that fact ; but they don't state so themselves. 

Governor Palmer, (page 30) : I wish to state that while this 
was going on I received a number of affidavits in regard to 
Poll 10. They will be presented to you to-morrow by the 
proper persons. (He alluded to Democratic affidavits rebut- 
ting the charges made.) 

The consolidated statement was sworn to November 9. 

The vote cast in this parish was 2,005 Democratic and 2,013 
Republican, and the Returning Board failed to count Polls 
2 and 10, casting 313 Democratic, and 146 Republican 
votes. 

Bossier. 

(Pages (60) 58 and 68.) 

Received Monday, November 27th ; opened November 27th ; 
sworn to by Supervisor November 13th before the clerk of 
the District Court. Full vote returned by the Supervisor. 

Under column of " Remarks " Supervisor stated, " returns 
Poll 1 not returned " on the 8th of November, and when 
sent in no sworn statement with the box ; only tally-sheet. 

Poll 3, gross fraud ; 3 Democratic commissioners in viola- 
tion of law. 

The vote polled in this parish was 883 Democratic and 
1,703 Republican. The Returning Board threw out Polls 1 



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and 3, which cast 280 Democratic and 78 Republican votes. 
No charges against this parish in Mr. Sherman's report. 

Catahoula. 

(Page 19.) 

Received by State Registrar November 16th; opened Novem- 
ber 27th. 

In reply to the question from Judge Trumbull, if the State 
Registrar was the proper person to receive the returns, Gen. 
Anderson said " yes, the law allows them to be returned to 
him or to the board ; a great many of them are directed to 
him." 

The law says no such thing. (See section 43, election laws.) 

The vote cast in this parish was, Democratic 907, Republi- 
can 820, aud the board threw out Poll (C) 5, Poll (C) 15, cast- 
ing 97 Democratic aad 20 Republican votes. There was no 
protest of intimidation or violation at either one of these polls, 
and the only protest was one declaring that more votes were 
polled at certain polls than there were voters, which, upon in- 
vestigation, was simply found that J. F. King had received 57 
votes for Presidential Elector of the fifth district. King was 
not a candidate. King was a candidate for some parish office 
and the Commissioners or Supervisor had tallied 57 votes for 
him as a Presidential Elector at this poll. 

The vote cast at the poll was : 

Wickliffe, 88 

St. Martin, 88 

Poche, 88 

McEnery, 62 

The Supervisor added the 62 votes of McEnery's to the 57 
tallied for J. F. King, as an Elector, which made 119, whilst 
the highest Elector on the Democratic side had only received 
88. Therefore he inferred that there were more votes than 
voters. 

The facts were that it was simply an error in making up 
the tally sheet, putting King's name down as a Presidential 
Elector when he was a candidate for some other office. Mc- 



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Enery was scratched so that he only received 62 votes, whilst 
the other Democratic Electors received 88. 

(No reference to this parish in Mr. Sherman's report.) 

St. Charles. 

(Page 62.) Returns on hand November 18th ; opened No- 
vember 21st. 

The only question concerning this parish was as to the le- 
gality or illegality of Poll No. 7, where 2 polling places were 
opened. The Supervisor had designated the polling place and 
had appointed three Commissioners of Election and the neces- 
sary Peace Officer, who had charge of the ballot-box and pa- 
pers. Promptly at 6 o'clock A. M., as required by law, the 
Democratic Commissioner was on hand, ready to perform his 
duties. The two Republican Commissioners failed to appear. 
After waiting some time he selected a citizen to act as Com- 
missioner, swore him in, and the two selected a third, who was 
likewise sworn in and the Republican constable turned over 
to them the ballot-box, papers, &c, and they opened a poll in 
conformity with law, at which there were polled 33 Democratic 
and 9 Republican votes. 

About two hours after the poll had been opened the two 
Republican Commissioners appeared and demanded to be in- 
stalled in the performance of their duties as Commissioners, 
which was refused, whereupon, they went off to a colored 
church near by and opened a poll, receiving the ballots in a 
candle box — 100 Republican and 3 Democratic. 

The board rejected the poll which was opened according to 
law, 33 Democratic and 9 Republican votes, and counted the 
illegal votes polled in the candle box. 

No reference to this parish in Mr. Sherman's report. 

Claiborne. 

(Pages 43, (60,) 61.. 

Received by mail, November 14th, two packages; one 
mailed from Homer November 10th, and one mailed from 
Homer November 11th ; seals broken at the end and atten- 
tion of the board called to the fact by Colonel Zachrie. Only 



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remarks were as to scattering votes, so said Kenner, of board, 
and Green, clerk. 

The vote cast in this parish was Democratic, 1,576 ; Repub- 
lican, 432, and the Returning Board threw out Poll No. 3 — 
Democratic votes 184, Republican none. Colonel Zachrie 
asked, " Is there any protest in that package ? " 

Mr. Kenner : " No, sir." 

Mr. Green, clerk : " Are there any protests in the parish of 
Clairborne?" 

Mr. Green : " No, sir ; none sir ; none except a general pro- 
test." 

Governor Wells said there was a lengthy statement from 
the Supervisors not attached to returns and dated November 
24, accompanied b} 7 two affidavits which were entirely rebut- 
ted before Mr. Meades' committee. 

The Supervisor of this parish is a clerk in the New Orleans 
Post-office, resident of New Orleans, and was sent to the 
parish to do such work ; drew his pay from State and from 
Post-office Department same time. 

Iberia. 

(See pages 21, 44, and 45.) 

Return is sworn to November 10th. On hand, November 
18th; opened November 24th. 

The only- protest was concerning Poll 4, Third Ward, where 
the Supervisor alleged that the Commissioners had not written 
the word " voted " across the certificates of the voters as soon 
as they had deposited their ballots. There was no statement 
from the Commissioners; no affidavits from citizens, and no 
evidence that anybody had voted twice ; but, because the 
Republican Commissioners had failed to do their duty, the 
board rejected PollJNo. 4 — 322 Democratic, and 11 Republican 
votes. 

The total vote polled in this parish was 1,247 Democratic, 
and 1,452 Republican. 

No charges against this parish in Mr. Sherman's report. 



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Grant. 

(Seepages 66, 96, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, and 
118.) 

The statemeDt of votes made by the Commissioners of 
Election in this parish was returned to the Republican and the 
Democratic United States Supervisors by the Commissioners, 
at the request of the Chairmen of the Executive Committees 
of the Republican and Democratic parties in Grant Parish, 
and by the consent of the candidates of both parties. 

The State Supervisor had designated the polling-places, ap- 
pointed the Commissioners of Election, and had then absented 
himself from the parish on the day of election, in collusion 
with Governor Kellogg, (as was proved before the Morrison 
committee,) and the Republican and Democratic United 
States Supervisors made out a consolidated return, and for- 
warded the same, together with the statement of votes of the 
Commissioners of Election, to the Returning Board, and Mr. 
Richardson, United States Supervisor, delivered all the returns 
to the Returning Board in person, November 29th ; and the 
vote was announced. 

After Mr. Richardson made a full explanation of all the 
facts concerning the election, the board laid the parish over 
for consideration. The statement of votes of the Commis- 
sioners of Election and tally-sheets were all in perfect order, 
according to law, and the board threw out the vote of the entire 
parish, seven polls, 522 Democratic and 398 Republican votes. 
(See extended testimony before Morrison committee,) and 
full testimony filed before the Returning Board from D. A. 
Ward, Supervisor, W. L. Richardson, U. S. Supervisor, and 
E. A. Burke, fully refuting all charges of irregularity except 
as to the absence of Ward, and proving Kellogg' s complicity. 
Mr. Sherman reports all the testimony and interrogatories 
against the parish and none in its favor. 

Parish of Orleans. 
(Page 63.) 

Ward 2, Poll 6. Returns received November 20th ; opened 
November 29th. 



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No allegation of intimidation. Supervisor Brim certified on 
consolidated return in column of remarks, that the return 
made by the Commissioner was so indistinct and imperfect, he 
could not embrace it in his consolidated return, and so he for- 
warded the tally sheet statement of votes, &c.,to the Returning 
Board. 

It was hard to say whether at Pole 6, De Blanc, an elector, 
got 247 or 249. The tally sheet shows 249 plainly. Burke 
suggested sending to the Secretary of State to verify figures. 

Board with tally sheets before them cast out the poll, 248 
Democratic and 93 Republican votes. 

(Page 64.) 

Ward 11, Poll 2. Returns dated November 13th ; opened 
November 27th. 

Louis Backer, Supervisor, swore to return on November 
13th, before the Secretary of State ; omitted Poll 2. Stated 
under head of remarks: " Tally-sheet statement of votes not 
delivered to him by the Commissioners." 

All charges against this poll were fully refuted by ample 
evidence before the board, and the open proceedings of the 
board show that the original tally-sheet was forwarded by 
Backers to the board, there opened and examined, and found 
to be signed by the two Republican and one Democratic Com- 
missioner, the Republican and Democratic Supervisors, and 
the Republican United States Deputy Marshal. 

The board failed to count Poll 2, casting 413 Democratic 
and 94 Republican votes. 

(Page 65.) 

"Ward 7, Poll 3. Returns sworn to November 13th ; opened 
November 27th. 

Supervisor omitted poll because he had not received the 
statement from Commissioners within twenty-four hours. 

Proof was made before the board that the Supervisor had 
absented himself from office on the day after the election and 
could not be found by the Commissioners. 

The board failed to count this poll, which cast 332 Demo- 
cratic and 160 Republican votes. 

4 



26 

In no case were the protests, affidavits, statements of riot, 
violence, intimidation, &c, attached to the Supervisors' con- 
solidated returns from any parish in the State in the manner 
required by law, (Sec. 26, election law,) except in the case of 
the parish of Concordia. 

In none of the preceding parishes were protests filed with 
clerks or District Courts. 

These statements clearly establish the fact that in the pro- 
ceeding ex parte testimony was received in the interest of the 
Republican party, notwithstanding the fact that Governor 
Wells had declared, November 20, that the time for filing con- 
tests had expired. (See pages 5 and 13.) 

The Democratic and Conservative counsel repeatedly de- 
manded an. opportunity to verify the returns and to get copies 
of the charges and protests against these parishes. (See 
pages 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14 and 16.) 

It will be seen the very elates at which those parishes that 
had been attacked were opened that all the parishes against 
which Republicans charged violence and intimidation, instead 
of being opened early in the proceedings of the Returning 
Board, and each party permitted to have copies of the affida- 
vits upon which the charges were based, and therefore have 
been enabled to procure the necessary proofs to fully set forth 
the facts to the Returning Board — instead of that course 
being pursued it will be observed by the record of the pro- 
ceedings that it was about the 24th, 25th, 26th, 28th and 29th 
of November, a very few days before the close of the labors of 
the board, before the charges against the Democratic parishes 
were ever made known, or the Democratic counsel were per- 
mitted to know the contents of the affidavits that had been 
filed before the Returning Board. 

Therefore witnesses being located in remote parts of the 
State it was impossible to procure the testimony which the 
Democratic and Conservative party could have brought to 
bear. But by the use of the telegraph large numbers of wit- 
nesses were brought to New Orleans, especially from the par- 
ishes against which the principal charges were made. And I 



27 

do assert that the examination of that testimony, compared 
with the testimony filed before the Returning Board, would 
fully substantiate the fairness of the election in those parishes. 

I claim that the evidence which was before that board in 
rebuttal of the Republican testimony, if it had been produced, 
was sufficient to have fully vindicated the fairness of the elec- 
tion. 

On page 19 General Anderson remarked thak the law al- 
lows the Supervisor to send the returns to the State Registrar 
of Voters or to the board either. 

The law allows no such thing. The law says that the re- 
turns shall be forwarded by mail to the Returning officers. 
Repeated protests were made by the Democratic and Conser- 
vative counsel against the holding of secret sessions by the 
board. (See pages 9, 15.) 

See resolution, page 9, inviting distinguished citizens to 
witness the canvass and count November 18, and on page 12 
Governor Wells said : 

" We have given to each party of the invited guests places 
here ; they have reporters, and will remain with us during the 
whole of our session ; thet will see the opening of the votes," 
&c. 

But the nature of the preamble and resolution, and the de- 
claration made by Governor Wells, was to lead the country to 
believe that the entire proceedings of that board were to be 
made in the view of the distinguished gentlemen who were 
witnessing the count. 

Such was not the case. 

They simply broke the package, read off the total vote upon 
the consolidated statement, and made but a casual examina- 
tion of the returns in the presence of those gentlemen. No re- 
turn was finally canvassed or compiled or passed upon by the 
Returning Board, in the presence of the distinguished gentle- 
men that they had invited to witness and canvass the count. 

On page 27, Governor Wickliffe, an electoral candidate, ap- 
plied for permission to witness the count, to Governor Wells; 
and received a reply from the secretary of the board, stating 



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that the board had granted the permission. When he for- 
mally appeared with the view of witnessing the proceedings, 
the permission was revoked, and the statement made that the 
letter had been written by the clerk, and unauthorized. 

Oscar Joffrion was a Supervisor of Eegistration during the 
registration and revision of registration and election, and was 
also a candidate for elector on the Republican ticket. (See 
page 21.) Application was made by the United States Super- 
visor of Elections for permission to witness the count, as 
they were entitled to do by law. (Section 2017 of the 
United States Statutes, entitled "Duties of Supervisors 
of Election.") The rights of United States Supervisors 
under this section of the United States Statutes were 
constantly denied by the Supervisors of Registration in the 
Parish of Orleans, and in the various parishes in this State, as 
fully established by testimony before the Morrison committee. 
They were denied the right to question applicants, and take 
the names of parties registered ; to investigate the registra- 
tion books ; to be present when the names were stricken off, 
and treated with contempt from the time they were assigned 
to duty until the time they finally completed their labors. 

Every application for permission to witness canvass and the 
compilation of the returns either by candidates, counsel, or 
U. S. Supervisors, was refused. 

The board repeatedly stated that the Supervisors' returns 
should be taken as prima facie evidence of the vote. In other 
words, they would not go behind the face of the returns of the 
Supervisors except to reject for violence, intimidation, &c. 
(See pages 1, .21, 22, 23, 132.) And notwithstanding this fact 
they have counted votes in Concordia, Natchitoches, Madison, 
and Vernon, where there were no returns before them that 
exhibited the fact that they had been cast. They failed and 
refused to go behind the face of the return when it was in 
the interest of the Democratic party and where polls had been 
omitted. 

In the parish of Concordia there were 518 votes counted 
for five electors — no such vote exhibited upon the tally sheets, 



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statement of votes, or .consolidated returns of Supervisors of 
Election. In Natchitoches they counted 535 votes for five elec- 
tors not exhibited on the tally sheets, statement of votes, or 
consolidated returns of Supervisors. In Madison parish they 
counted 63 Republican votes for which they had no tally 
sheets, statement of votes, or consolidated returns of Super- 
visors of Election. The evidence shows that the ballot-box 
had been seized and carried otf by an opposing faction of Re- 
publicans at 6 o'clock, P. M., before a ticket had been counted. 
The total of these votes, so counted and not embraced in 
any returns before the .board — 



Kellogg, 


234 


Burch, 


241 


Joseph, 


1,362 


Sheldon, 


1,364 


Marks. 


1,334 


Levissee, 


829 


Brewster, 


776 


Jotfrion, 


1,364 



The above were Republican candidates. 
For the Democratic candidates : 



McEnery, 


13 


St. Martin, 


13 


Poche, 


14 


DeBlanc, 


13 


Cobb, 


13 


Cross, 


13 



In the parish of Concordia, if the board had adhered to their 
ruling, that the consolidated statement was prima facie evi-' 
dence of the vote, they would have thrown out 1,353 for the 
Republican Electors, and 126 votes for the Democratic 
Electors, as the Supervisor omitted them from his regular re- 
turns, and made the same character of protests against Polls 
2, 3, and 4, as were made in other parishes against Democratic 
polls. These protests and affidavits were all in form, attached 
to his returns, accompanied* and sustained by the affidavits of 
the Commissioners of Elections and citizens, as required by 
law; were duly filed within the time required bylaw; and if 
the same rule had been applied to this parish as was applied 
against the Democratic parishes, Polls 2, 3, and 4 would have 
been thrown out. 

The charges of riot, violence, tumult, and disorder were, in 



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this instance, made by the Republican Supervisor against 
members of the Republican party.- There were two factions 
in the parish in the Republican party. One faction is said to 
have been bull-dozed by the other. Pistols were drawn; the 
gallery of the voting-place was broken down. In one instance, 
testimony was produced, proving that Dave Yancy, a candi- 
date on the State ticket, was seen with his hands in the ballot- 
box when the vote was being counted. 

Notwithstanding these facts, the Returning Board not only 
counted the entire vote of the polls rejected by the Supervisors, 
but, in addition thereto, counted 588 votes for the Republican 
Electors on the Republican ticket, which neither poll-sheets 
nor consolidated statements of Supervisors showed had been 
cast. 

When we discovered Supervisors of Registration failed and 
refused to deliver over the returns to the Returning Board, 
and that many of them had brought their returns to New 
Orleans, and were not delivering them to the Returning 
Board, due protest was made. (See page 31.) 

The hearing of the case of East Baton Rouge was fixed for 
Monday, (see page 32,) and without notice to counsel the case 
of East Baton Rouge was laid over, and the case of the Parish 
of Ouachita was taken up, without ten minutes' notice to our 
counsel. Witnesses that had been carefully prepared in the 
Custom-house were brought in and introduced to the Return- 
ing Board by the Republican party. Witnesses that had been 
telegraphed for from Ouachita, being the parties who were 
charged with the crimes that were alleged to have been com- 
mitted, were on their way from Ouachita — that fact was stated 
to the Returning Board, notwithstanding which, they insisted 
upon going ahead with the first case, before the Republican 
testimony had all been heard ; a large number of such wit- 
nesses were present in New Orleans, anxious and ready to tes- 
tify, and the board refused to hear them, notwithstanding the 
fact that they had admitted a large amount of ex parte testi- 
mony from the Republican side. 

There was added to the registration in New Orleans in 1876 



ai 

the names of 5,500 whites, and the records of the Registration 
and Election Committee, offered in evidence, shows that so 
arbitrary and unfair were the officers of registration that 
2,615 individual cases of complaint of whites against registra- 
tion officers for refusal to register, arbitrary and illegal conduct 
requiring correspondence with State authorities, or proceed- 
ings in court to enforce their rights. 

Demands were repeatedly made upon Gov. Kellogg for the 
removal of officers for such violations of the law and im- 
proper conduct, but not one removal was made by him for 
such cause from the commencement of the registration to the 
close of the election. 

The Supervisors treated the orders of the State Registrars 
with contempt, and the State Registrars informed me that they 
were appointed upon the recommendation of the Republican 
Campaign Committee, and were more under their control 
than his. 



Current Expenses of State Government of Louisiana for Eight 
Years ending December 31, 1875, from Official Reports, 

Year 1868, $5,851,309 93 



< 1869, 


6,320,891 13 


6 1870, 


9,944,527 07 


' 1871, 


12,258,620 40 


< 1872, " 


5,506,132 83 


< 1873, 


3,816,707 48 


< 1874, 


3,535,221 41 


• 1875, 


3,185,707 34 



$50,419,117 59 

Expenses for like purposes 1858, $1,872,053 43. Eight 
years— $14,976,427 44. Excess of expenditures— $35,442,- 
690 15. 

(1858, only year record can be found, State House having 
been burned during the war.) 



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Value of taxable property 1870, 
Value of taxable property 1875, 

Shrinkage six years, 
Excess of expenditures, - 



Net loss 



$251,296,017 02 
195,904,419 86 

$55,391,597 16 
35,442,690 15 

,834,287 31 



Under honest government the taxable property of the State 
would have been double the present value. 



Personally appeared before me, Charles S. Rice, a duly ap- 
pointed United States Commissioner in and for the District 
of Louisiana, E. A. Burke, to me well known, who, upon being 
duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that the vote 
actually cast at the late election held November 7th, 1876, in 
Louisiana, for Presidential electors, was, for 



W. P. Kellogg, 


77,174 


John McEnery, 


83,723 


J. H. Burch, 


77,162 


E. C. Wicklitfe, 


83,859 


Peter Joseph, 


74,913 


L. St. Martin, 


83,650 


L. A. Sheldon, 


74,902 


F. P. Poche, 


83,474 


Morris Marks, 


75,240 


A. DeBlanc, 


83,633 


A. B. Levissee, 


75,395 


W. A. Seay, 


83,812 


O. H. Brewster, 


75,479 


R. A. Cobb, 


83,530 


Oscar Jotfrion, 


75,618 


K. A. Cross, 


83,603 



That the Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors of Registra- 
tion have fraudulently and wrongfully failed to return the fol- 
lowing vote actually cast, viz : — for 



W. P. Kellogg, 


651 


John McEnery, 


2,914 


J. H. Burch, 


651 


R. C. Wickliffe, 


2,917 


Peter Joseph, 


650 


L. St. Martin, 


2,914 


L. A. Sheldon, 


649 


F. P. Poche, 


2,918 


Morris Marks, 


651 


A. DeBlanc, 


2,917 


A. B. Levissee, 


650 


W. A. Seay, 


2,921 


O. H. Brewster, 


650 


R. A. Cobb, 


2,915 


Oscar Joffrion, 


650 


K. A. Cross, 


2,919 



33 

That the Returning Board, in canvassing, have illegally and 
without proper contest thrown out the folio whig votes actually 
cast, for 



W. P. Kellogg, 


1,763 


John McEnery, 


10,280 


J. EL Burch, 


1,763 


R. C. Wickliffe, 


10,293 


Peter Joseph, 


1,764 


L. St. Martin, 


10,291 


L. A. Sheldon, 


1,763 


F. P. Poche, 


10,280 


Morris Marks, 


1,764 


A. DeBlanc, 


10,289 


A. B. Levissee, 


1,764 


W. A. Seay, 


10,291 


0. H. Brewster, 


1,762 


R. A. Cobb, 


10,261 


Oscar Joffrion, 


1,763 


K. A. Cross, 


10,288 



That said Returning Board have illegally and fraudulently 
counted the following votes, which do not appear upon any 
returns made to said board, viz : — for 



W. P. Kellogg, 


234 


John McEnery, 


. 13 


J. H. Burch, 


241 


R. C. Wickliffe, 




Peter Joseph, 


1,362 


L. St. Martin, 


13 


L. A. Sheldon, 


1,364 


F. P. Poche, 


14 


Morris Marks, 


1,334 


A. DeBlanc, 


13 


A. B. Levissee, 


829 


W. A. Seay, 




O. H. Brewster, 


776 


R. A. Cobb, 


13 


Oscar Joffrion, 


1,364 


K. A. Cross, 


13 



And that said Returning Board have fraudulently returned 
W. P. Kellogg, J. H. Burch, Peter Joseph, L. A. Sheldon, 
Morris Marks, A. B. Levissee, O. H. Brewster, and Oscar Joi- 
frion, as duly elected ; whereas, John McEnery, R. C. Wick- 
liffe, L. St.- Martin, F. P. Poche, A. DeBlanc, W. A. Seay, R. 
A. Cobb, and K. A. Cross are legally elected. 

That these facts will be disclosed by an inspection of the re- 
turns, statements, and evidence submitted to said Returning 
Board. 

(Signed) E. A. Burke. 

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 15th January, 1877. 
[ l. s. ] Charles S. Rice, 

U. S. Commissioner, 
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APPENDIX "D. 



Actual and Keturning Board Vote for Members of 

Congress. 
First Congressional District. 



PARISHES. 



Third Ward 

Fourth Ward.... 

Fifth Ward 

Sixth Ward 

Seventh Ward. . 
Eighth Ward... 

Ninth Ward 

Fifteenth Ward 

Plaquemine 

St. Bernard 

Totals.... 



2765 

1430 

2036 

1448 

1848 

1409 

1948 

885 

744 

363 



pq 



14S76 



13381 
744 
363 



144S8 



PC 

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2230 
1126 
1222 

- 812 
1936 

453 

702 
1125 
1715 

657 



11978 



9454 

1715 

657 



11826 



388 



38S 



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152 



Second Congressional District. 



PARISHES. 


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2014 
2312 
2429 
2183 
1037 
555 
247 

501 
857 
265 
742 
1003 


694 

938 

I 860 

895 


5279 
1692 
1229 
1298 
1949 


561 
36 


178 




Second Ward 




Tenth Ward 




Eleventh Ward 




Twelfth Ward 


10717 

857 

229 

742 

1003 


470 
507 
269 

824 
1692 
1138 
1279 
1949 




Thirteenth Ward 




Fourteenth Ward 




Sixteenth and Seven- 
teenth Wards 




Jefferson. It. and L 




St. Charles 


91 


St. John Baptist „ 

St. James 


19 






Totals 


14145 


13548 

1 


11515 


11447 


597 


178 


110 







88 



Third Congressional District. 



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1078 
1679 
1215 
2003 
1393 
1425 
1242 
1032 
1157 
955 
225 
1291 


1078 

1677 

1215 

1687 

1393 

1425 

922 

1027 

638 

955 

225 

1291 


2070 

1692 

2059 

2014 

1964 

2389 

1455 

1090 

661 

228 

69 

91 


2070 

1691 

2059 

1869 

1966 

2389 

1443 

1095 

654 

228 

70 

91 


2 
316 

320 

5 

519 


145 

12 

7 




Assumption 




Ascension 




Lafourche 




Terrebonne 


2 


St. Mary 




Iberia 




St. Martin. 


5 


Lafayette 

Vermilion 

Cameron 


1 


Calcasieu 








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14695 


13533 


15782 


15626 


1162 


164 


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PARISHES. 


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649 
909 

1762 
522 
558 
407 

1326 

1653 
879 
890 
957 


1624 
471 
909 

1419 

552 

407 
631 
1653 
599 
452 
957 


1750 

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23 

2096 

398 

79 

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883 

2661 

1722 

861 

227 


1746 

179 

23 

2089 

79 
839 
704 
2661 
1644 
667 
237 


178 

343 

522 
6 

695 

280 
438 


4 

7 
398 

179 

78 
194 




Vernon 


178 


•Sabine 




Natchitoches 




Grant 




Winn 




Red River 




DeSoto 




Caddo 




Bossier 




Webster 




Bienville 


10 






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12136 


S674 


11540 


10868 


2462 


860 


188 







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462 

337 

991 

1899 

468 

1079 

1485 

1400 

1590 

967 

579 

622 


378 

715 

462 

347 

213 

361 

468 

1079 

1485 

400 

1405 

839 

579 

481 


2456 
129 

3204 

2499 
253 
773 
23 
318 
89 
754 
427 
800 

2420 
282 


2456 

101 

3204 

2562 

98 

732 

23 

318 

89 

421 

427 

797 

2444 

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74 

788 
1538 

1000 
185 

98 

141 


28 

155 

41 

333 
3 

73 




Franklin. 




Tensas 




Madison 


63 


Richland 




Ouachita 




Jackson 




Lincoln 




Union 




Morehouse 




Claiborne 




Catahoula 




Carroll 


24 


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13006 


9212 


14427 1 13881 

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3824 


683 


87 



iSfiarfA Congressional District. 



PARISHES. 



Avoyelles 

St. Landry 

Pointe Coupee.. 

Feliciana E 

Feliciana W 

Baton Rouge E.. 
Baton Rouge W 

St. Helena 

Livingston 

Tangipahoa 

Washington 

St. Tammany.... 

Totals 



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1479 

3750 

1080 

1743 

1250 

2234 

439 

649 

764 

983 

512 

637 



15520 



1479 
3631 

1080 

238 

793 
440 
648 
388 
861 
512 
633 



10703 



1505 
2420 
1986 

771 
1625 
912 
517 
121 
567 
166 
557 



11147 



1506 
2383 
1986 

624 
1467 
912 
517 
121 
551 
166 
564 



10797 4817 



119 

1743 

1012 
1441 



376 
122 



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147 
158 



16 



358 



40 



APPENDIX "IL" 

Entitled to Vote. 

The State Census of 1875 was conducted mainly by the 
same officials who supervised the registration, and much evi~ 
dence has been produced showing that there was a discrimina- 
tion Unfavorable to the whites in the enumeration. 

Adopting, however, the State Census of 1875, and allowing 

one voter for each five of population in 56 parishes, and for 

the native white and colored in New Orleans, and to this sum 

adding the naturalized foreigners in New Orleans, we find the 

following result, viz : 

Entitled 
Population. to Vote. 

Ascension * 14,384 2,877 

Assumption 13,053 2,610 

Avoyelles 15,503 3,100 

Baton Kouge, East 20,627 4,125 

Baton Kouge, West 5,742 1,148 

Bienville 9,085 1,817 

Bossier 13,398 2,679 

Caddo 23,396 4,679 

Calcasieu..* 9,959 1,992 

Caldwell 5,362 1,072 

Cameron 2,218 443 

Carroll 16,418 3,283 

Catahoula 9,805 1,961 

Claiborne 14,698 2,939 

Concordia ' 11,467 2,293 

DeSoto 13,290 2,658 

Feliciana, East 15,423 3,084 

Feliciana, West 12,156 2,431 

Franklin 5,823 1,164 

Grant 5,353 1,070 

Iberia 12,473 2,494 

Amount carried forward 249,633 49,919 



41 

Amount brought forward 249,633 49,919 

Iberville 15,003 ' 3,000 

Jackson 4,414 883 

Jefferson, L.B 4,037 807 

Jefferson, KB 8,670 1,734 

Lafayette ". 11,005 2,201 

Lafourche 17,406 3,481 

Lincoln 8,699 1,739 

Livingston 4,884 977 

Madison 13,992 2,798 

Morehouse 12,279 2,455 

Natchitoches 21,311 4,262 

Ouachita 13,396 2,679 

Plaquemines .11,849 2,369 

Pointe Coupee 14,159 2,832 

Kapides 18,553 3,711 

RedEiver 7,015 1,403 

Richland 7,476 1,495 

Sabine 5,810 1,162 

St. Bernard 4,243 848 

St. Charles 6,359 1,272 

St. Helena ". 6,627 1,325 

St. James. 20,033 4,006 

St. John 8,823 1,764 

St. Landry 39,960 7,992 

St. Martin 10,590 2,118 

St. Mary 17,245 3,449 

St. Tammany 6,009 1,202 

Tangipahoa 7,226 1,445 

Tensas 18,517 3,703 

Terrebonne 15,180 3,036 

Union 12,158 2,431 

Vermilion 6,696 1,339 

Vernon 4,256 851 

Amount carried forward 633,513 126,688 



42 

Amount brought forward 633,513 126,688 

Washington. 3,769 754 

Webscer 9,522 1,904 

Winn 5,355 1,071 

Orleans 203,368 

57,647 colored, yields 11,529 

Foreigners naturalized, census 

1875 14,984 

Foreigners naturalized, census 

1875,1876 1,600 

102,009 native born whites, 

yields 20,401 

— 48,514 

Total, native and foreign 855,527 178,931 

Indians and Chinese 1,512 

Total Population, Census 1875 857,039 

Registered in 1876 204,231 



Fraudulent registration 25,300 



43 



APPEXDIX "P." 



Actual Vote cast for Senators and Members of House of 
Representatives, Election of 1876. 

State Senators. 

Votes. 

2d district. F. C. Zacharie 4,864 

Ernest Alix % 3,148 

3d district. P. A. Ducros, Jr 5,519 

J. J. Monette 3,175 

6th district. J. W. Falls 4,092 

F. Yoisin 4,094 

T. B. Stamps 6,181 

Henry Demas 6,223 

8th district. Isaiah D. Moore 4,992 

Thomas A. Cage 5,733 

9th district. Isaac Sutton 2,534 

Don Caffery 2,395 

W. B. Smith 90 

10th district. H. L. Garland 5,481 

T. C. Anderson 4,157 

11th district. E. P. Herwig 1,881 

Hardy Richardson 3,452 

J. B. Wands 102 

12th district. E. L. Weber , 2,718 

L. G. Perkins 4,085 

14th district, George Waites 2,601 

Sam Wakefield 2,646 

W.W.Wharton 2,058 

16th district. A. J. Bryant 3,279 

W. E. Rapp 1,286 

E. L. Whitney 1 

17th district. C. B. Wheeler 6,008 

H. R. Lucas 3,254 

18th district. Geo. B. Hamlet 1,049 

T. E. Meredith 2,465 



19th district. 

20th district. 
21st district. 
22d district. 
23d district. 
24th district. 



44 

G. 'H. Ellis 2,787 

J. D. Hamilton 10 

George Thompson 50 

Percy Baker 3,247 

H. C. Mitchel .4,231 

W. H. Wise 1,745 

William Harper 2,4 H 

G. W. Sandiford 4,390 

Radford Blunt . .3,834 

Louis Texada 2,193 

Geo. Y. Kelso 1,712 

Charles Boatner ' 1,741 

B. F. Brian 1,549 



Ascension. 



Assumption 



Avoyelles. 



Baton Rouge East. 



House of Representatives. 

Totes m 

Fred. Fobb.. 2,068 

G.H.Hill ..2,019 

J. L. Brent 1,260 

K H. Wilson 1,087 

George Drury 1,756 

Emile E. Lauve 1,660 

Jonas Hughes 1,683 

D. Himel 1,565 

Ludger Barbin 1,471 

H. C. Kemper 1,441 

L. J. Souei\ 1,531 

Pierre Mayloire 1,494 

Alexander Gilbert 68 

George Bird 1,578 

Ed. R. Holt 1,577 

W. G.Lane 1,491 

George W. Dupre 2,238 

J. M. Williams 2,248 

H. C. Young 2,244 



Baton Rouge West. 

Bienville. 

Bossier. 



Caddo. 



Calcasieu. 



Caldwell. 



Cameron. 



Carroll. 



Catahoula. 



Claiborne. 



45 

B.W.Clark 443 

Oscar Holt . . 916 

W. S. Cockerham 949 

Hodge Kaburn 231 

S. Thomas 1,428 

K A. Durdin 1,602 

L. B.Phillips 882 

H. W. Ogden 918 

J. Wems 282 

F. Smith 70 

F. Burckett 1,484 

W. H. May 1,496 

C. J.Foster 1,624 

C. W. Keeting. 2,513 

Col. Brown 2,551 

A. H. Leonard 2,790 

G. W. Richardson 631 

W. Vincent 284 

W. E. Gill 463 

G. J. Williams 228 

T.J. Humble 102 

R. D. Briclger 573 

J.Griffith 82 

A. W. Gillespie 131 

C. B. Gordon 75 

W. L. McMillen .2,368 

CainSartam 1,180 

Mcholas Burton 1,343 

J. W. Montgomery 631 

S. Withkosky.. 376 

T. Bruthaupt 848 

T. A. Routon 853 

Jay Boyer 25 

J. J. Duke 1,579 

John Young 1,540 



Concordia. 



DeSoto. 

Feliciana East. 
Feliciana West. 

Franklin. 
Grant. 

Iberia. 



Iberville. 



Jackson. 



W. Eidgley 384 

James Randall. 409 

Anderson Toliver 1,103 

George Washington 1,071 

W. Eidgley :.. 684 

James Randall 679 

George Washington 678 

Anderson Toliver 674 

James T. Means 1,236 

George J. Pitts. 1,305 

J. J. Johnson 893 

J. J. Long 894 

W. B. Porter ..1,744 

T. B. Lyons 1,742 

Geo. A. Swarze 773 

Lucius Early 772 

Robert H. Ryland 1,252 

J. Burress McGehee 1,248 

L. H. Bowden .. 790 

W. A. Moore 1 

E. G. Randolph 503 

Charles Thomas 361 

M. D. Andrews 30 

John M. Avery 1,247 

S. R. Gray 1,210 

J. G. Rochelle 3 

L. C. Allison 11 

L. A. Snaer 1,449 

Ulger Romero 1,471 

J. M. Carville 2,282 

John D. Murrell . 950 

J. S. Davidson 2,226 

Henry B. James 962 

E. E. Kidd 451 

J. W. Jones 1 

J. O. Morris 1 



Jefferson. 

Lafayette. 
Lincoln. 

Livingston. 

Lafourche. 



Madison. 
Morehouse. 



Ouachita. 



Plaquemines. 



Pointe Coupee. 



Rapides. 



47 

P. J. Kennedy 2,476 

E.F.Brown 1,702 

F. H. Hatch 305 

M. T. Martin. 1,031 

F. Martin 756 

G. L. Gaskins 918 

John A. Powell 445 

Levi Spiller 583 

Tom Green Davidson 214 

Robert Benefield 49 

John S. Billieu 1,976 

Octave Harang. . . . 1,937 

Charles Gaudet 2,052 

Jules Seveignes 2,005 

W. G. Shelton 315 

Henry Blair 769 

W.. M. Washburn 1,399 

J. D. Hammonds 1,313 

O. H. Brewster 780 

F. W. Barrington 784 

D. A.. Briard, Jr 1,878 

J. G. Taylor 1,876 

J. G. Grant 712 

H. P. Kemochen 735 

H. C. Warmoth . 1,721 

A. C. Milon 1,200 

Hy. Mahoney 607 

Milton Jones 1,905 

B. Dayries 1,931 

A. A.' Batchelor 1,134 

L. B. Claiborne .1,084 

K M. Clarke .1,643 

James Jeffries 1,607 

George W. Stafford 1,457 

W. J. Delacey 1,718 

E. J. Barrett 1,833 

Baptist Drew 1,711 



Red River. 

Richland. 

Sabine. 

St. Bernard. 

St. Charles. 
St. Helena. 
St. John, the Baptist. 

St. James. 



St. Landry. 



48 

Andy Bosley 731 

S. Russ 294 

H. C. Stringfellow 209 

W. T. Oliver 370 

P.ELToler '. . . 854 

D.W.Self. t 502 

W. W. McKneely 403 

P. P. Carroll 64 

Lucien Marrero 161 

A. B. Estopinal 793 

T. F. Thienamann 214 

Michael Hahn 1,168 

J. E. Watson 548 

Chs. E. Lea ,.. 613 

James Cole 1,283 

Campbell Howard 748 

Dennis Burrett 1 

Richard Sims 1,953 

Lucien Como 1,950 

V. Dickerson 1,938 

Edward Tureaud 970 

J. Louis Gaudet 977 

J. Gentil , 976 

Adam Travis.. '. 29 

"Wallace Locker 28 

P.J.Smith 28 

M. D. Cavanaugh 1,358 

C. K Ealer 1,240 

A. Richard 1,725 

A. Simon .1,553 

James Webb .1,343 

L. Damarius 2,695 

Louis Stagg 2,374 

F. J. David 2,296 

N. Lastrapes 2,011 

A. Donato 1,738 

E. Gantt 2,352 



St. Landry (con tin 



St. Martin. 

St. Mary. 



St. Tammany. 
Tensas 



Terrebonne. 

Tangipahoa, 

Union. • 
Vermilion. 

Vernon. 

Washington. 



49 

uecl.) C. J. Thompson ' 2,139 

J. M. Taylor.. 2,107 

W. V. Singleton. 2,169 

J.E. Bergano 2,118 

J. S. Ramore. 536 

W. R. Hansley 34 

W. J.Bell....* 76 

R. J. Brooks 2,399 

W. C.Gary 2,389 

Geo. P. Walker .1,441 

Geo. W. Thomas 1,457 

S. W.Blasdell 559 

Jules Brady. 636 

R. G. Walker 3,203 

J. Ross Stewart 3,201 

G. E. Wallace 455 

Mike Moore 451 

R. Worrell 1 

H. M. Johnson ." .1,996 

Robert Johnson 1,952 

W. A. Bisland 1 1,390 

M. A. Thibodeaux 1,377 

H. W.L.Lewis 506 

M. S. iNewsom. 659 

H. RBankston,..; 323 

George W. Wheat 115 

■ O.B.Steele ,1485 

O.F.Seilers 1,442 

J. A. Brooksheer 293 

Adrien Nunez 679 

Elijah Ewing " 83 

E. E. Smart 315 

John A. Brown 305 

John R. Wood 401. 

O. M. Bickham 220 

Zack Masree. , 18 



Webster. 
Winn. 

JSTatchitoches. 



Orleans, 1st Ward. 



2d Ward. 



3d Ward. 



4th Ward. 
5th Ward. 

6th Ward. 



50 

Fred E. Heath 859 

W. W. Carloss 866 

G. A. Kelly 429 

R, D. Wall 64 

White Holmes 30 

Henry Ruby 2,091 

L. G. Bannon 2,056 

J. J. Lewis 2,049 

H. H. Hathorn 1,839 

J. A. Prudhomme 1,570 

M.Perot 1,777 

C. J. Leeds 2,012 

S. H. Buck 2,011 

P. E. Bechtel 688 

W.Thompson 683 

Ernest Alix 1 

J. A. Shakespeare 2,276 

R. H. Wilde 1,763 

O. H. Schenck 473 

A. S. Badger 971 

E. W. Stansburry 925 

J. D. Hill 2,686 

J. Fitzpatrick ,756 

George Forester 2,706 

W. L.' Evans 2,285 

George Derozin 2,157 

W. J. Elliott 2,194 

E. W. Huntington 1,330 

GeorgeE Paris" 1,212 

J. M. Lamarre 2,006 

W. H. Peralta , 1,982 

Louis DeGerry 1,231 

William Vigirs ♦. .1,197 

J. Aldige 1 ,450 

Albert Voorhees 1,450 

J.Dias 800 

G. Alcina 796 



7th Ward. 



8th Ward. 
9th Ward. 



10th Ward. 



1 1th Ward. 



12th Ward. 



18th Ward. 
14th Ward. 
15th Ward. 

16th Ward. 
17th Ward. 



51 

J. M. Cressy 1,940 

Charles Kolle 1,734 

Hy. Tremoulet 1,960 

Eugene Garden 1,903 

J. Blackston 1,910 

W. J. Moore 1,901 

H.Schultz 476 

J. Kelly 1,390 

Louis Leonhard .1,920 

A. Delavigne .1,391 

PL C. Bartlette 384 

W. J. O. Bray 656 

Frank Koig 293 

Louis Bush 2,413 

B. F. Jonas 2,365 

A. J. Berry 2,360 

Thos. Boswell 844 

W. Terrell 864 

J. W.Kendall 845 

Jesse K. Bell .2,154 

E. B. Briggs 2,164 

T. W. Tostrick. 930 

E. Williams 874 

J '. S. Aycock 945 

Paul Grandson.. 501 

F. Charleville 40 

W.Kern 1,606 

J. H. Ferguson t 1,289 

T. P. Stanton 888 

J. Gracier.' 1,118 

F. Fisher, Sr 1,321 

A. Dejoie 1,598 



TABLES 



SHOWING THE 



VOTE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AS ACTUALLY CAST, 

AS KETUKNED BY THE SUPEKVISOKS, 

AND AS 

PROMULGATED BY THE BOARD OF RETURNING OFFICERS. 



KOSHISOX'S OOY1IITTSE REPORT. 



Vote of the State as actually 



Compiled returns of an Election held in the 



Writ of Election, dated September 16th, A. D. 1876, ordering- same, 
and to maintain the freedom and purity of elections; to prescribe 
returning officers, and defining- their powers and duties; to pre- 
Representatives ; and to enforce Article one hundred and three 



Presidential 



Ascension 

Assumption 

Avoyelles.... 

Baton Rouge, East. 

Baton Rouge, West 

Bienville 

Bossier 

Caddo 

Calcasieu.... 

Caldwell 

Cameron 

Carroll 

Catahoula 

Concordia 

Claiborne 

De Soto 

Feliciana, East 

Feliciana, West 

Franklin 

Grant 

Iberia 

Iberville 

Jackson 

Jefferson, Right and Left 

Bank 

La Fayette 

LaFourche 

Lincoln 

Livingston 

Madison 

Morehouse 

ISTachitoches 

O uachita 

Plaquemines 

Pointe Couple 

Rapides 

Red River 



2,071 

1,691 

1,504 

1,626 

912 

227 

1,703 

2,687 

84 

285 

52 

2,432 

820 

2,523 

432 

898 



2,073 

1,691 

1,504 

1,627 

912 

227 

1,708 

2,687 

84 

285 

52 

2,427 

817 

2,524 

432 

898 



2,074 

1,692 

1,504 

1,624 

198 

227 

1,719 

2,686 

84 

285 

52 

2,438 

822 

2,538 

432 

898 



2,074 

1,692 

1,504 

1,624 

203 

227 

1,719 

2,687 

84 

285 

52 

2,438 

822 

2,537 

432 

898 



2,069 

1,692 

1,505 

1,624 

194 

227 

1,719 

2,687 

84 

285 

52 

2,439 

823 

2,539 

432 

898 



778 

129 

395 

1,452 

2,297 

23 

1,761 
660 

2,011 
331 
121 

2,521 
782 

2,092 
793 

1,754 

1,987 

1,756 
833 



778 

129 

394 

1,452 

2,297 

23 

1,768 
660 

2,011 
329 
121 

2,511 
782 

2,092 
792 

1/753 

1,984 

1,756 
834 



777 

129 

394 

1,452 

1,855 

23 

1,767 
661 

2,012 
331 
120 

2,516 
783 

2,093 
792 

1,754 

1,987 

1,756 
834 



776 

129 

394 

1,453 

1.848 
23 

1,768 
661 

2,011 
330 
121 

2,511 
765 

2,098 
792 

1,753 

1,986 

1,755 
834 



776 

129 

394 

1,452 

2,266 

23 

1,768 
661 

2,010 
329 
121 

2,506 
783 

2,093 
792 

1,753 

1,987 

1,756 
834 



2,073 

1,692 

1,504 

1,624 

197 

227 

1,720 

2,686 

84 

285 

52 

2,438 

822 

2,538 

432 

898 



776 

129 

394 

1,452 

1,848 
23 

1,768 
661 

2,011 
329 
121 

2,511 
782 

2,085 
792 

1,753 

1,988 

1,757 
834 



mst for Presidential Electors. 

State of Louisiana, on the 7th clay of November, A. D. 1876, under a 
and pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 98, to regulate the conduct 
the mode of making returns thereof; to provide for the election of 
scribe the mode of entering on the rolls of the Senate and House of 
of the Constitution, approved November 20th, A. D. 1872, to wit : 



Electors. 



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2,073 


2,074 


1,197 


1,197 


1,198 


1.200 


1,198 


1.197 


1,197 


1,197 


1,691 


1,691 


1,687 


1,686 


1,686 


1,679 


1,680 


1,686 


1,678 


1,680 


1,505 


1,504 


1,470 


1,471 


1,471 


1,471 


1,471 


1,471 


1,470 


1,470 


1,624 


1,624 ! 


2,238 


2,238 


2,238 


2,238 


2,238 


2,238 


2,239 


2,239 


197 


912 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


227 


227 


953 


956 


955 


956 


955 


956 


934 


955 


1,719 


1.721 


883 


883 


883 


883 


883 


883 


883 


883 


2,686 


2,686 


1,654 


1,656 


1,657 


1,656 


1,655 


1,657 


1,656 


1,656 


84 


84 


1,298 


1,298 


1,294 


1,294 


1,298 


1,292 


1,292 


1,816 


285 


285 


631 


632 


632 


632 


632 


632 


632 


632 


52 


52 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


2,438 


2,438 


592 


592 


592 


592 


591 


592 


592 


592 


822 


822 i 


907 


936 


936 


935 


936 


936 


872 


936 


2.519 


2,536 


307 


309 


296 


296 


296 


296 


305 


296 


432 


432 


1,577 


1,577 


1,576 


1,577 


1,576 


1,577 


1,577 


1,577 


898 


898 


1,304 


1,305 


1,305 


1,305 


1,305 


1,305 


1,305 


1,305 






1,736 

1.248 


1,737 


1,737 


1,737 


1 ,737 


1,737 


1,737 


1,734 
1,249 


""776 


'"776 


1,248 


1,247 


1,248 


1,248 


1,248 


1,248 


129 


129 


789 


790 


790 


789 


789 


789 


789 


789 


394 


394 


518 


520 


520 


515 


519 


519 


495 


520 


1,452 


1.452 


1,247 


1,247 


1,247 


1,247 


1,247 


1,246 


1,247 


1,247 


1,848 


1,848 


953 


954 


951 


950 


957 


949 


949 


949 


23 


23 


460 


462 


463 


463 


463 


463 


463 


463 


1,764 


1,753 


785 


782 


783 


781 


783 


783 


783 


781 


661 


661 


1.156 


1,148 


1,156 


1,156 


1,156 


1,156 


1,156 


1,156 


2.011 


2,011 


2,005 


2,004 


2,005 


2,004 


2,005 


2,005 


1,999 


2,001 


'329 


330 


1,064 


1,970 


1,070 


945 


1,070 


1,070 


1,070 


1,070 


121 


121 


769 


769 


769 


769 


767 


768 


769 


769 


2,506 


2,506 


332 


315 


331 


332 


306 


300 


331 


316 


783 


781 


1,371 


1,380 


1,379 


1,379 


1,379 


1,379 


1,378 


1,379 


2,085 


2,093 


1,761 


1,761 


1,761 


1,761 


1,761 


1,761 


1,761 


1,761 


792 


792 


1,865 


1,869 


1,867 


1,868 


1,868 


1,868 


1,868 


1,868 


1,753 


1,752 


712 


712 


710 


711 


712 


712 


711 


712 


1,986 


2,003 


1,082 


1,083 


1,083 


1,084 


1,080 


1,081 


1,082 


1,067 


1,757 


1,756 


1,617 


1,619 


1,619 


1,618 


1,620 


1,621 


1,620 


1,618 


834 


834 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 



Vote of the State as actually cast for 



Richland 

Sabine 

St. Bernard 

St. Charles 

St. Helena 

St. John Baptist. 

St. James 

St. Landry 

St. Martin 

St. Mary 

St. Tammany.... 

Tensas 

Terrebonne 

Tangipahoa 

Union 

Vermillion 

Vernon 

Washington 

Webster 

Winn 

Orleans 



fee 
2 



277 
23 

691 
1,242 

520 
1,288 
1,9S9 
2,432 
1,099 
2,406 

551 
3.207 
1,969 

581 
94 

277 



165 

864 

76 

15,157 



276 
23 

691 
1,242 

520 
1,288 
1,991 
1,432 
1,097 
1,406 

552 
3,207 
1.970 

581 
94 

272 



164 

864 

82 

15,122 



77,332 



77,288 



277 

23 

691 

1,242 

520 

1,288 

1,991 

2,432 

1,097 

2,406 

552 

3,207 

1,970 

581 

94 

272 

2 

164 

864 

82 

15,146 



76,211 



277 
23 

691 
1,142 

520 
1,288 
1,990 
2,432 



099 
405 
552 
207 
970 
'581 

94 

272 

2 

165 

864 

82 
15,166 



76,203 



277 

23 

691 

1,240 

520 

1,286 

1,985 

2,430 

1,098 

2,406 

552 

3,207 

1,970 

581 

94 

272 

2 

165 

864 

82 

15,169 



76,616 



277 

23 

691 

1,242 

520 

1,288 

1,991 

2,430 

1,099 

2,407 

552 

3,207 

1,971 

581 

94 

272 

2 

165 

864 

82 

15,156 



76,200 



Presidential Electors — Continued. 



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970 


970 


970 


970 


970 


970 


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23 


23 


906 


906 


906 


907 


907 


907 


907 


907 


691 


691 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


1,242 


1.242 


264 


264 


264 


264 


264 


264 


264 


264 


520 


520 


648 


749 


649 


649 


649 


649 


649 


649 


1,288 


1,288 


743 


743 


743 


738 


743 


743 


743 


743 


1,991 


1,990 


979 


979 


942 


944 


942 


942 


941 


976 


1,430 


2,430 


3,746 


3,749 


3,734 


3,747 


3,747 


3,747 


3,747 


4.746 


1,099 


1,099 


1,023 


1.021 


1.023 


992 


1,020 


1,023 


1,023 


1,023 


2,406 


2,406 


1.484 


1.485 


1.485 


1,485 


1.485 


1,485 


1,485 


1,485 


552 


552 


649 


648 


648 


647 


648 


648 


64S 


648 


3,207 


2,207 


464 


464 


464 


464 


464 


464 


464 


464 


1,971 


1,972 


1,387 


1,389 


1,388 


1,388 


1,389 


1,388 


1,372 


1,388 


581 


581^ 


974 


974 


974 


974 


974 


974 


974 


974 


94 


94 


1,465 


1.482 


1,493 


1,493 


1,493 


1.493 


1,498 


1,493 


272 


272j 


902 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


2 


2 


647 


647 


647 


647 


647 


647 


647 


647 


165 


165 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


864 


864 i 


888 


887 


887 


887 


887 


887 


887 


887 


82 


82 ! 


549 


550 


550 


551 


549 


549 


514 


549 


15,165 


15,157 i 


24,932 


24,819 24,970 


13,947 


24,957 


24.961 


24,954 


24,963 


76,170 


76,915 


83,730 


83,700 83,812 


83,623 


83,774 


83,772 


83,627 


83,817 



Vote as returned to the Board of Returning- 



OFFI 



Compiled Returns of an Election held in th 



Writ of Election, dated September 16th, A. D. 1876, ordering same,, 
and to maintain the freedom and purity of elections; to prescribe 
turning officers, and defining their powers and duties; to prescribe 
sentatives; and to enforce Article one hundred and three of 



Ascension 

Assumption 

Avoyelles 

Baton Rouge, East 

Baton Rouge, West , 

Bienville 

Bossier 

Caddo 

Calcasieu , 

Caldwell 

Cameron , 

Carroll 

Catahoula 

Concordia 

Claiborne 

DeSoto 

Feliciana, East 

Feliciana, West 

Franklin , 

Grant 

Iberia 

Iberville 

Jackson 

Jefferson, Right and Left Bank. 

La Fayette 

La Fourche 

Lincoln 

Livingston 

Madison 

Morehouse 

Natchitoches 

Ouachita 

Plaquemines 

Pointe Coupee 

Rapides 

Red River 

Richland 

Sabine 

St. Bernard 

St. Charles 

St. Helena 

St. John Baptist 

St. James 

St. Landry 

St. Martin 

St. Mary 

St. Tammany 

Tensas 



Electoral and Gubernatorial Vote 



2,071 
1,691 

1 ,504 
1.470 

91 

227 

1.703 

2,687 

84 

285 

5: 

2,43: 

82( 
2,523 

432 

898 



778 

129 

395 
1,452 
2,29 

23 
1,701 

658 
1,805 

331 

121 
2,521 

78 
2.099 

793 
1,754 
1.987 
1.756 

833 

277 
23 

691 
1,242 

520 
1,288 
1,989 
2.432 
l,09!i 
2 40C 

551 
3,207 



2,073 

1,691 

1,504 

1.477 

912 

227 

1.708 

2,687 

84 

285 

52 

2.427 

81 

2,524 

432 

898 



778 

129 

394 

1,452 

2,297 

23 

1,768 

657 
1,865 

329 

121 
2,511 

782 
2.099 

792 
1,753 
1,984 
1,75C 

834 

276 
23 

691 
1,242 

520 
1,288 
1,991 
2.432 
1.097 
2,4d6 

552 
3,207 



2,074 

1,692 

1,504 

1,476 

198 

227 

1,719 

2,680 

84 

285 

5 

2.438 

82'i 

1,95( 

432 

898 



777 

129 

394 

1.452 

1,85, 

23 

1.76 

658 
1,866 

331 

120 
2,516 

783 
1,558 

792 
1,754 
1.987 
1,756 

834 

277 
23 

691 
1,242 

520 
1,288 
1,991 
2,432 
1,097 
2,406 

552 
3,207 



2,074 

1,692 

1,504 

1,476 

203 

22' 

1,719 

2,687 

84 

285 

52 

2.438 

822 

1,949 

432 

898 



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129 

394 

1,45: 

1,848 

23 

1.768 

658 
1,865 

330 

121 
2.511 

765 
1,558 

792 
1,753 
1, 
1,755 

834 

277 
23 

691 
1.242 

520 
1.288 
1,990 
2,43 
1,099 
2.4( 

51 
3,207 



2,009 
1,69! 

1,505 

1,476 

194 

227 

1.719 

2,687 

84 

285 

52 

2,439 

82;', 

1.181 

432 

898 



776 

129 

394 

1.452 

2,260 

23 

1,768 

658 
1,864 

329 

121 
2,506 

783 
1,558 

792 
1,753 
1,987 
1,756 

834 

277 
23 

691 
1.240 

52C 
1.286 
1,985 
2,430 
1,098 
2,406 

552 
3,207 



2,073 

1.092 

1,504 

1,476 

197 

227 

1,720 

2,080 

84 

285 

52 

2,438 

822 

1,950 

432 

898 



770 

129 

394 

1,452 

1,848 

23 

1,768 

658 
1,805 

329 

121 
2,511 

782 
2,092 

792 
1,753 
1,988 
1.757 

834 

277 
23 

691 
1,242 

520 
1.288 
1,991 
2,430 
1,099 
2,407 

592 
3,207 



2,073 
1,1 

1,505 
1,476 

197 

227 

1,719 

2,686 

84 

285 

52 

2,438 

822 
2,519 

432 



776 

129 

394 

1,452 

1,848 

23 

1,764 

658 
1,865 

329 

121 
2,506 

783 
1,550 

792 
1,753 
1,986 
1,757 

834 

277 
23 

691 
1.242 

520 
1,288 
1,991 
2.430 
1,099 
2,406 

552 
3,207 



Officers by the several Supervisors. 



C I A L . 

State of Louisiana, on the 7th day of November. A. D. 1876, under a 
and pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 98, to regulate the conduct 
the mode of making returns thereof; to provide for the election of re- 
the mode of entering on the rolls of the Senate and House of Repre- 
the Constitution, approved November 20th, A. D. 1872, to wit : 



OF THE STATK OF LOUISIANA FOR 1876. 



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2,052 


2,054 


1,197 


1.197 


1.198 


1.200 


1,198 


1,197 


1,197 


1,197 


1,219 


1,213 


1,691 


1.684 


1,685 


1.687 


1,686 


1.686 


1,679 


1,680 


1,686 


1.678 


1.680 


1.697 


1,697 


1,504 


1.512 


1.498 


1,470 


1,471 


1.471 


1,471 


1,471 


1,471 


1,470 


1.470 


1,485 


1,485 


1,470 


1,473 


1,473 


1,102 


1.102 


1,102 


1,102 


1,102 


1,102 


1.102 


1.102 


1,106 


1.103 


912 


90S 


911 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


440 


441 


441 


444 


442 


227 


225 


225 


953 


956 


955 


956 


955 


956 


934 


955 


958 


958 


1,721 


1,724 


1,722 


883 


883 


883 


883 


883 


883 


883 


883 


880 


881 


2.686 


2,630 


2,649 


1.654 


1,656 


1,657 


1,650 


1,655 


1,657 


1,656 


1.656 


1,619 


1,694 


84 


85 


80 


1,298 


1,298 


1,294 


1,294 


1,298 


1,292 


1,292 


1,316 


1.308 


1,304 


285 


282 


281 


631 


632 


632 


032 


632 


632 


632 


632 


625 


627 


52 


52 


50 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


2,438 


2,416 


2,404 


592 


592 


592 


592 


591 


592 


592 


592 


607 


599 


822 


S01 


801 


907 


930 


936 


935 


936 


936 


872 


936 


958 


948 


1,938 


2,445 


2,454 


307 


307 


271 


271 


271 


271 


305 


271 


379 


371 


432 


427 


427 


1,577 


1,577 


1,576 


1,577 


1.576 


1,577 


1.577 


1,577 


1,590 


1.589 


898 


892 


893 


1.304 


1,305 


1,305 


1 .305 


1,305 


1,305 


1,305 


1,305 


1,313 


1,309 






1 


1,736 
1,248 


1,737 
1,248 


1.737 


1.737 


1,737 
1,248 


1,727 
1,248 


1,737 
1,218 


1,734 
1,249 


1,741 
1,246 


1,741 

1,249 


""776 


780 


776 


1/247 


4,2-18 


129 


129 


129 


789 


790 


790 


789 


789 


789 


789 


789 


789 


789 


394 


405 


385 


518 


520 


520 


515 


519 


519 


593 


520 


513 


524 


1,452 


1,449 


1,447 


1,247 


1,247 


1.247 


1.247 


1,247 


1,246 


1.247 


1,247 


1,253 


1,253 


1,848 


2,283 


2,293 


953 


954 


951 


950 


957 


949 


949 


949 


965 


954 


23 


35 


41 


364 


366 


367 


367 


367 


367 


307 


367 


456 


450 


1,753 


1,68S 


1,766 


785 


782 


7S3 


781 


783 


783 


783 


781 


859 


783 


658 


657 


656 


721 


716 


721 


721 


721 


721 


721 


721 


722 


723 


1,865 


1,807 


1.864 


1.694 


1,693 


1.094 


1.693 


1,694 


1,694 


1,690 


1,690 


1,690 


1,693 


330 


324 


321 


1,064 


1,070 


1,070 


945 


1,070 


1,070 


1,070 


1,070 


1.080 


1,081 


121 


121 


121 


709 


769 


709 


769 


767 


768 


769 


769 


770 


770 


2,506 


2,510 


2.508 


332 


315 


331 


332 


306 


360 


331 


310 


287 


337 


781 


762 


768 


1,371 


1.380 


1,379 


1,379 


1,379 


1,379 


1,378 


1,379 


1,400 


1,393 


1,558 


2.0S4 


2,089 


1,761 


1,761 


1,581 


1,588 


1,588 


1,761 


1,588 


1,588 


1,776 


1,770 


792 


781 


783 


1,865 


1,869 


1,867 


1,868 


1,868 


1,868 


1,868 


1,868 


1,869 


1,872 


1,752 


1,732 


1.712 


712 


712 


710 


711 


712 


712 


711 


712 


727 


717 


2,003 


1.943 


1,965 


1,082 


1,083 


1,083 


1.084 


1.080 


1,081 


1,082 


1,067 


1,096 


1,098 


1,756 


1,739 


1,746 


1.617 


1,619 


1,619 


1,618 


1,620 


1,621 


1,620 


1,618 


1,639 


1,566 


834 


830 


830 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


415 


416 


277 


265 


270 


963 


970 


970 


970 


970 


970 


970 


970 


975 


973 


23 


23 


23 


906 


906 


906 


907 


907 


907 


907 


907 


907 


907 


691 


691 


638 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


330 


335 


385 


1,242 


1,241 


1.242 


264 


264 


204 


264 


264 


264 


264 


264 


204 


264 


520 


516 


517 


648 


649 


649 


649 


649 


549 


649 


649 


652 


650 


1,288 


1,2S7 


1.2S.i 


743 


743 


743 


7H8 


743 


743 


743 


743 


757 


757 


1,990 


1,984 


1,982 


979 


979 


942 


944 


942 


942 


941 


976 


984 


985 


2,43'i 


2,445 


2,428 


3,746 


3,749 


3,744 


3,747 


3,747 


3.547 


3,747 


3,746 


3,750 


3,755 


1,099 


1,090 


1.089 


1,023 


1.021 


1.023 


992 


1.020 


1.023 


1,023 


1,023 


1.032 


1,033 


2,406 


2.397 


2,399 


1,484 


1,485 


1,485 


1.485 


1,485 


1,485 


1,485 


1,485 


1,455 


1,457 


552 


549 


549 


649 


648 


648 


647 


648 


048 


648 


648 


649 


649 


3,207 


3,192 


3,203 


464 


474 


464 


464 


464 


465 


464 


464 


486 


471 



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Electoral and Gubernatorial Vote 




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565 

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165 

864 

82 

14,809 


1,970 
565 
94 
272 

2 
165 
864 
82 

14,830 


1,970 

565 

94 

272 

2 

165 

864 

82 

14,831 


1,971 

565 

94 

272 

2 

165 

864 

82 

14,819 


1,971 
565 
94 

272 

2 

165 

864 

82 

14,828 






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165 

864 

76 

14,821 


164 
864 

82 
14,786 


Webster 










76,717 


76,544 


74,443 


74,426 


74,756 


74,969 


74,923 



CERTIFI 

I certify that the above is a correct statement of Electoral and Guber 
visors of Registration to the Board of Returning: Officers. 



New Orleans, Bee. 21, '76. 



9 



"Officers by the several Supervisors — Continued. 



of the State of Louisiana for 1876. 



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1,972 


1,962 


1,972 


1,387 


1,389 


1,388 


1,388 


1,389 


1,388 


1,372 


1,388 


1,402 


1,399 


565 


55S 


558 


629 


681 


931 


591 


931 


931 


931 


931 


924 


935 


94 


87 


89 


1,465 


1,492 


1,493 


1,493 


1,493 


1,493 


1,493 


1,493 


1,505 


1,504 


272 


270 


268 


902 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


915 


912 


2 


1 


1 


647 


647 


647 


647 


647 


647 


647 


647 


649 


649 


165 


163 


165 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


519 


514 


864 


858 


857 


888 


887 


887 


877 


887 


887 


887 


887 


897 


895 


82 


78 


78 


549 


550 


550 


551 


549 


549 


514 


549 


565 


546 


14,820 


14,693 


14,578 


23,943 


23,824 


23,981 


23,954 


23,965 


23,965 


23,963 


23,970 


24,061 


24,059 


75,132 


76,067 


76,027 


80,515 


80,521 


80,689 


80,176 


80,656 


80,831 


80,430 


80,700 


81,501 


81,343 



C A T E . 

natorial vote of the State of Louisiana as returned by the several Super- 

Chas. J. Abell, 

Secretary of the Board. 



10 

OFFI 

As promulgated by the Board 

Compiled Returns of an Election held for Presidential Electors in the 
Writ of Election, dated September 16th, A. D., 1876, ordering same, 
and to maintain the freedom and purity of elections; to prescribe 
returning officers and defining their powers and duties; to prescribe 
atives, and to enforce Article one hundred and three of the 



Asce n sion 

Assumption 

Avoyel le s 

Baton Rouge — East 

Baton Rouge — West 

Bienville , 

Bossier 

Caddo , 

Calcasieu 

Caldwell 

Came ron , 

Carroll 

Catahoula 

Claiborne 

Concordia 

De Soto 

Feliciana— East. All the polls 

in this parish rejected. 

Feliciana — West 

Franklin 

Grant. No legal election in 

this parish 

Iberia 

Iberville 

Jackson 

Jefferson — Left bank 

Jefferson — Right bank 

La Fayette 

La Fourche 

Lincoln 

Livingston 

Madison 

Morehouse 

Natchitoches 

Ouachita 

Orleans 

Plaquemines 

Pointe Coupee* 

Rapides 

Red River 



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2,071 


2,073 


2,074 


2,074 


2,069 


2,073 


1,691 


1,691 


1,692 


1,692 


1,692 


1,692 


1,504 


1,504 


1,504 


1,504 


1,505 


1,504 


1,466 


1,467 


1,466 


1,466 


1,466 


1,466 


912 


912 


198 


203 


194 


197 


227 


227 


227 


227 


227 


227 


1,625 


1,630 


1,641 


1,642 


1.641 


1,642 


2,687 


2,687 


2,6S6 


2,687 


2,687 


2,686 


84 


84 


84 


84 


84 


84 


211 


211 


211 


211 


211 


211 


52 


52 


52 


52 


52 


52 


2,432 


2,427 


2,438 


2,43S 


2,439 


2,438 


802 


802 


S04 


804 


805 


804 


432 


432 


432 


432 


432 


432; 


2,523 


2,524 


2,538 


2,537 


2,539 


2,538 


717 


717 


717 


717 


717 


717 


624 


624 


623 


622 


622 


622' 


101 


101 


101 


101 


101 


101 


1,441 


1,441 


1,441 


1,441 


1,442 


1,441 


2,297 


2,297 


1,855 


1,848 


2,266 


1,848 


23 


23 


23 


23 


23 


23 


687 


687 


687 


687 


687 


687 


1,074 


1,081 


1.080 


1,081 


1,081 


1,081 


654 


653 


654 


654 


654 


654 


1,867 


1,867 


1,867 


1,867 


1,866 


1,867 


331 


329 


331 


330 


329 


329 


121 


121 


120 


121 


121 


121 


2,584 


2,574 


2,579 


2,574 


2,569 


2,574 


427 


425 


426 


426 


426 


425 


2,092 


2,092 


2,093 


2,093 


2,093 


2,085 


745 


745 


745 


745 


745 


745 


14,791 


14.788 


14,779 


14,800 


14,801 


14,789 


1,754 


1,753 


1,754 


1,753 


1,753 


1,753 


1,987 


1,984 


1,987 


1,986 


1,987 


1,988 


1,756 


1,756 


1,756 


1,755 


1,756 


1,757 


833 


834 


834 


834 


834 


834 



11 



CIAL. 

of Returning Officers. 

State of Louisiana, on the 7th day of November, A. D. 1876, under a 
and pursuant to the provisions of Act !No. 98, to regulate the conduct 
the mode of making returns thereof; to provide for the election of 
the mode of entering on the rolls of the Senate and House of Represent- 
Constitution, approved November 20th, A. D. 1872, to wit : 



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1,197 


1,197 


1,198 


1,200 


1,198 


1,197 


1,197 


1,197 


1,691 


1,691 


1,687 


1,6S6 


1,686 


1,679 


1,680 


1.686 


1,678 


1,680 


1,505 


1,504 


1,470 


1,471 


1,471 


1,414 


1,471 


1,471 


1,470 


1,470 


1,466 


1,466 


796 


796 


796 


796 


796 


796 


796 


796 


197 


912 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


441 


227 


227 


953 


956 


955 


956 


955 


956 


934 


955 


1,641 


1,643 


598 


603 


603 


603 


603 


603 


603 


603 


2,686 


2,686 


1,654 


1,656 


1,657 


1,656 


1,655 


1,657 


1,656 


1,656 


84 


84 


1,298 


1,252 


1,294 


1,294 


1,298 


1,292 


1,292 


1.296 


211 


211 


4S0 


481 


481 


481 


481 


481 


481 


481 


52 


52 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


246 


2,438 


2,438 


592 


592 


592 


592 


591 


592 


592 


592 


804 


804 


810 


839 


838 


838 


839 


839 


780 


839 


432 


432 


1,392 


1,392 


1,392 


1,393 


1,392 


1,393 


1,393 


1,393 


2,519 


2,536 


307 


309 


296 


296 


296 


296 


305 


296 


717 


717 


612 


613 


613 


613 


613 


613 


613 


6ia 


622 


622 


238 


238 


237 


238 


238 


238 


23S 


239 


101 


101 


715 


716 


716 


715 


715 


715 


715 


715 


1,441 


1,441 


925 


925 


925 


925 


925 


924 


925 


925 


1,878 


1,848 


953 


954 


951 


950 


957 


949 


949 


949 


23 


23 


460 


462 


463 


463 


463 


463 


463 


463 


686 


687 


141 


141 


141 


140 


141 


141 


141 


140 


1,082 


1,081 


644 


641 


642 


641 


642 


642 


642 


641 


654 


654 


638 


633 


638 


638 


638 


638 


638 


638 


1,867 


1,867 


1,689 


1,688 


1,689 


1,688 


1,689 


1,689 


1,685 


1,689 


329 


330 


1,004 


1,070 


1,070 


945 


1,070 


1,070 


1,070 


1,070 


121 


121 


391 


391 


391 


391 


391 


391 


391 


391 


2,569 


2,569 


345 


328 


344 


345 


319 


313 


344 


329 


427 


425 


392 


394 


394 


394 


394 


394 


393 


394 


2,085 


2,093 


1,418 


1,418 


1,418 


1,418 


1,418 


1,418 


1,418 


1,418 


745 


745 


348 


349 


349 


349 


349 


349 


349 


349 


14,798 


14,790 


23,943 


23,918 


23.977 


23,955 


23,965 


23,957 


23,963 


23,970 


1,753 


1,752 


712 


712 


710 


711 


712 


712 


711 


712 


1,986 


2,004 


1,082 


1,083 


1,083 


1,084 


1,080 


1,081 


1,082 


1,067 


1,757 


1,756 


1,617 


1.619 


1,619 


1,618 


1,620 


1,621 


1,620 


1,618. 


834 


834 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 


412 



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St. Charles 

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St. James 

St. Jno. Baptist 

St. Landry 

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120 


120 


120 


120 


120 


120 


23 


23 


23 


23 


23 


23 


691 


691 


691 


691 


691 


691 


1,229 


1,229 


1,229 


1,229 


1,227 


1,229 


520 


520 


520 


520 


520 


520 


1,989 


1,991 


1,991 


1,990 


1,983 


1,991 


1,288 


1,288 


1,288 


1,288 


1,286 


1,288 


2,394 


2,394 


2,394 


2,394 


2,392 


2,392 


1,099 


1,097 


1,099 


1,099 


1,09S 


1,099 


2,405 


2,405 


2,405 


2,405 


2,405 


2,405 


551 


552 


552 


552 


552 


552 


565 


565 


565 


565 


565 


565 


3,207 


3,207 


3,207 


3,207 


3,207 


3,207 


1,969 


1,970 


1,970 


1,970 


1,970 


1,971 


94 


94 


94 


94 


94 


94 


178 


178 


178 


180 


180 


180 


277 


272 


272 


272 


272 


272 


165 


164 


165 


165 


165 


165 


670 


670 


670 


670 


670 


670 


76 


82 


82 


82 


82 


82 


75,135 


75,127 


74,014 


74,027 


74,418 


74,003 



CERTIF 

We, the undersigned Returning Officers, pursuant to authority vested 

certify the foregoing is a true and correct compilation of the statement 

of November, A. D. 1876, under a Writ of Election promulgated 

And we hereby declare that the following-named persons were duly 

Wm. P. Kellogg, J. H. Burch, Peter Joseph, L. A. Sheldon, Morris 



Compared with and verified from the official statement in the office of 
Januahy 10th, 1877. 



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120 


120 


193 


194 


194 


194 


194 


194 


194 


194 


23 


23 


906 


906 


906 


907 


907 


907 


907 


907 


691 


69] 1 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


336 


1,229 


1,229 j 


229 


229 


229 


229 


229 


229 


229 


229 


520 


520j 


648 


649 


649 


649 


649 


649 


649 


649 


1,991 


1,990! 


979 


979 


979 


944 


942 


942 


941 


976 


1.2S8 


1,288! 


743 


743 


743 


738 


743 


743 


743 


743 


2,392 


2,392 i 


3,626 


3,629 


3,624 


3,627 


3,627 


3,627 


3,627 


3,626 


1,099 


1,099 j 


1,023 


1,021 


1,023 


992 


1,020 


1,023 


1,023 


1,023 


2,405 


2,405i 


1,459 


1,460 


1,460 


1.460 


1,455 


1,460 


1,460 


1,460 


552 


552 


649 


648 


648 


647 


648 


648 


648 


648 


565 


565 


855 


855 


855 


855 


855 


855 


855 


855 


3,207 


3,207 


464 


464 


464 


464 


464 


464 


464 


464 


1,971 


1,972 


1,387 


1,389 


1,38S 


1,388 


1,389 


1,388 


1,372 


1,388 


94 


94 


1,465 


1,492 


1,493 


1,493 


2,493 


1,493 


1,492 


1,493 


180 


180 


469 


469 


469 


469 


469 


469 


469 


469 


272 


272 


902 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


909 


165 


165 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


514 


670 


670 


452 


451 


452 


451 


451 


451 


451 


451 


82 


82 


549 


550 


550 


551 


549 


549 


514 


549 


74,017 


74,736 


70,508 


70,509 


70,553 


70,335 


70,536 


70,525 


70,423 


70,566 



ICATE. 

in us by Act No. 98. approved November 20th, A. D. 1872, do hereby 

of votes cast at an Election for Presidential Electors held on the 7th day 

September 16th. A. D. 1876, ordering same. 

and lawfully elected, to wit : 

Marks, A. B. Levisee, O. H. Brewster, and Oscar Joffrion. 

(Signed) J. Madison Wells, 

Tho. C. Anderson, 
G. Casanave, 
Louis M. Kenner. 



the Secretary of State. 



K. W. Hunter, 

Clerk Ho. Com. 






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